Privacy law coverage affecting Delaware: enforcement actions, legislation, court decisions and compliance deadlines, reported from primary sources.
Delaware has a comprehensive consumer privacy statute, the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA). This page collects our coverage touching Delaware, alongside the federal rules that apply there. For the statute itself rather than the news, see our Delaware privacy law page.
Three states condition workplace electronic monitoring on notice rather than on consent, and each builds the requirement differently. Connecticut makes a posted notice the legal notice. New York requires a notice on hiring and a posting. Delaware offers a choice between a daily electronic notice and a one-time acknowledged one.
Read more →A universal opt-out signal moves the choice from the website to the browser: one setting, broadcast to every site, instead of a banner per visit. Several state statutes now require controllers to honour one. This guide sets out what those statutes and the California regulations say, the conditions on the mechanism, and what two enforcement actions establish about broken opt-out plumbing.
Read more →Deceptive design has been criticised far longer than it has been regulated, and the two are easy to confuse. This guide separates them: what dark pattern means as a defined legal term, what the FTC can reach under section 5 after the Eighth Circuit vacated its click-to-cancel rule, which statute survived that ruling, and where the most concrete design standards in American law sit.
Read more →There is no single employee privacy statute in any state. What exists is a stack of laws written decades apart, each aimed at whatever the anxiety of its moment was — a paper file, a tape recorder, a Facebook password, a fingerprint scanner. Read in the order they arrived, the stack explains its own gaps. This guide takes them chronologically rather than by state.
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