Utah Legislature Supports Letting Consumers Correct Data
Utah could soon add a right to correct inaccurate information to its comprehensive privacy law. The Utah legislature Thursday passed HB-418, which would also require social media data portability and interoperability (see 2502280057).
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If Gov. Spencer Cox (R) enacts the bill, it would leave Iowa as the only state without such a consumer right in its privacy statute, among the 20 states that have comprehensive laws, Future of Privacy Forum Senior Director Keir Lamont blogged Friday.
The proposed change "would align the law with the consumer data rights established in most other states, but make the Utah law slightly less business-friendly," wrote WilmerHale lawyers in a blog post Friday.