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Delaware data privacy law

Delaware data privacy law

- Delaware joined the ranks of states with their own privacy laws in 2016, when the Delaware Online Privacy and Protection Act or DAPA went into effect. DAPA has three major provisions. Websites must post privacy policies. Ebook providers must safeguard user information and websites and applications directed at children must obey new marketing regulations. DOPA requires that any website that collects personally identifiable information from Delaware residents must post and comply with a comprehensive privacy policy. An organization's privacy policy must be conspicuously posted by meeting one of three requirements. It may be posted on the homepage or first significant page of a website, or it may be accessible through a distinguishable text link or icon on that page that contains the word privacy in it or would be otherwise recognizable to a reasonable individual. Or for internet services that are not websites, the…

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