State Issues: Privacy Legislation

In the wake of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a growing number of states across the country are considering comprehensive privacy legislation of their own. Most of the proposals aim to give residents new rights to ownership over their data and establish new transparency requirements for entities that process personal data. Individuals would have the right to access, delete, correct, and move their data, or opt-out of data collection. Some of the proposed measures could impact data maintained by colleges and universities in these states.