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Sends commercial email, in Oregon

Oregon prohibition on printing, displaying or posting Social Security numberssince 3 lines

ORS 646A.620(1)(a) to (c) · Read the law's page

  • Do not print a consumer's Social Security number on mail to the consumer that is material the consumer did not request, or on any documentation the consumer requested for a transaction or service, unless the number is redacted (ORS 646A.620(1)(a)).
  • Do not print a consumer's Social Security number on any card the consumer needs to access products or services you provide (ORS 646A.620(1)(b)).
  • Do not publicly post or publicly display a consumer's Social Security number, meaning communicate it or otherwise make it available to the public, unless it is redacted (ORS 646A.620(1)(c)).
Oregon Consumer Information Protection Act, requirement to develop safeguards for personal informationsince 3 lines

ORS 646A.622 (2007 c.759 sec. 12; amended 2015 c.357 sec. 3; 2018 c.10 sec. 6; 2019 c.180 sec. 4) · Read the law's page

  • Develop, implement and maintain reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect the security, confidentiality and integrity of personal information, including its secure disposal.
  • Satisfy this duty either by already being subject to and complying with Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Title V regulations, HIPAA and HITECH regulations, or another state or federal law providing greater protection, or by implementing an information security program with a designated coordinator, a periodic risk assessment, employee training, vetted service-provider contracts, network and software risk assessment and patch management, attack detection and testing, and secure destruction of records when the information is no longer needed.
  • A small business may scale its program's administrative, technical and physical safeguards to its own size, complexity and the sensitivity of the personal information it collects.
  • This binds a covered entity, any person, including a public body, that owns, licenses, maintains, stores, manages, collects, processes, acquires or otherwise possesses an Oregon consumer's personal information in the course of business, vocation, occupation or volunteer activity, and a vendor the covered entity contracts with to hold that information on its behalf; a person who acts solely as a vendor is not itself a covered entity.
  • The Director of the Department of Consumer and Business Services enforces this duty by investigation, subpoena and a cease-and-desist order, with a civil penalty of up to $1,000 per violation and up to $500,000 for any one occurrence; the sections name no private right of action of their own.

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