Privacy law coverage affecting Oregon: enforcement actions, legislation, court decisions and compliance deadlines, reported from primary sources.
Oregon has a comprehensive consumer privacy statute, the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA). This page collects our coverage touching Oregon, alongside the federal rules that apply there. For the statute itself rather than the news, see our Oregon privacy law page.
Registration statutes are usually compared by what they demand of a filer. They can also be compared by what they hand back to the public, and on that axis the four state registries are not alike. One publishes every answer as a downloadable file; the other three publish a search box. This reports what is readable off each, and what California's file disclosed.
Read more →Data broker registration is the one privacy obligation that starts with a public filing rather than a consumer request. Four states — California, Vermont, Texas and Oregon — operate registries, and each defines the regulated entity differently enough that a company can be a broker in one and not the next. This guide reads the four statutes against each other.
Read more →There is no national facial recognition statute, and the law that exists does not divide by state so much as by who is operating the system. Government deployment has produced warrant requirements, accountability reports and mandatory human review. Private deployment has produced one outright municipal ban and a federal enforcement order. This guide sorts the rules along that line.
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