You're reading the web edition of STAT Health Tech, our guide to how tech is transforming the life sciences. Sign up to get this newsletter delivered in your inbox every Tuesday and Thursday. A growing patchwork of state-level privacy laws could pose a challenge for upstart health tech companies. After California led the way with its consumer privacy law in 2018, Virginia and Colorado followed suit, and now Massachusetts has advanced its own data privacy bill. Each independent piece of legislation could impact consumer-oriented health apps that don't fall under HIPAA -- leading digital health companies to worry about mounting costs to navigate the regulatory thicket and declining revenue for resale of consumer data, Mohana reports.