Rhode Island enacts data privacy law
The Rhode Island Data Transparency and Privacy Protection Act (RIDTPPA) outlines how businesses must protect customer data. What’s the impact? While similar in many respects to other recently enacted comprehensive privacy acts, RIDTPPA privacy notice applicability and disclosure requirements exceed those seen in other states. Businesses serving Rhode Island residents will need to evaluate their privacy practices to make necessary adjustments to comply with RIDTPPA’s opt-out and applicability requirements. On June 28, 2024, Rhode Island became the nineteenth state to enact a data privacy law, joining California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. The law focuses on providing customers with transparency with regard to how their personally identifiable information (PII), particularly that of children, is used and shared by data controllers and processo...