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NIST Privacy Framework, Communicate-PCM.AW-P1
Mechanisms (e.g., notices, internal or public reports) for communicating data processing purposes, practices, associated privacy risks, and options for enabling individuals’ data processing preferences and requests are established and in place.NIST Privacy Framework, version 1.0, January 2020, CM.AW-P1
We read each law below as bearing on this control. That does not mean the control, done well, meets the law: what each law asks is on its own page. Law library as of .
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- not yet in force
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- proposed, not law
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- MIT mitigations4.2 Risk Disclosure, 6 laws
- MIT mitigations4.6 User Rights & Recourse, 6 laws
- 2 more in the MIT mitigations
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Data subject rights
111 laws, 98 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Law No. 124/2024, rights of the data subject |
Tell a data subject, in concise and plain language and with particular care where the information is addressed to a minor, your identity and contact details, the purposes and legal basis of processing, the recipients, any transfer abroad, the retention period, and the rights available to them. Stop processing a data subject's personal data for direct marketing, including related profiling, as soon as they object, without requiring a reason, and tell them of this right explicitly and separately at the first communication. |
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| LQPD, rights of the data subject |
Tell a data subject, at the point you collect or first obtain their personal data, your identity, the purposes and legal basis of processing, the recipients, any transfer to a third country, the storage period, and their rights. Stop processing personal data for direct marketing, including related profiling, as soon as a data subject objects, and bring that right to their attention explicitly and separately no later than the first communication with them. +1 more |
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| Law on the Protection of Personal Data, rights of data subjects |
Tell a data subject at least your identity and address, the purposes of processing and the file's existence, the recipients or categories of recipients, whether a reply is mandatory or voluntary and the consequences of not replying, and the existence and conditions of the rights of access, rectification, updating, elimination and objection, when you collect their data or, if collected elsewhere, at the latest thirty days after collection. Publish an easily accessible privacy policy carrying the article 25 disclosures, including that data on an open network may circulate without security guarantees and could be seen or used by unauthorised third parties, wherever data is collected over an open network. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2013, notice and rights of data subjects |
Tell a data subject, on request, the purposes of collecting and processing their personal data, its source if known, the classes of third parties it may be disclosed to, whether supplying it is obligatory or voluntary and the consequences of not supplying it, and how to contact you with inquiries or complaints. |
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| Ley 25.326, rights of data subjects |
Before collecting a data subject's personal data, tell them in clear, express terms the purpose it will be processed for and who may receive it, that a file or database exists together with its controller's identity and address, whether answering is mandatory or optional, the consequences of answering, refusing, or answering inaccurately, and that they may exercise access, rectification, and erasure rights. |
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| Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024 (Cth), Automated Decision-Making Transparency from , in 4 weeks |
Disclose in the entity's APP privacy policy the kinds of personal information used, and the categories of decisions made, by a computer program that could reasonably be expected to significantly affect an individual's rights or interests. |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decision-Making in Austria |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Austria of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Data Protection Act, 2019, rights of a data subject |
When collecting personal data, or promptly after obtaining it from another source, give the data subject the required notice, including of any automated decision-making and meaningful information about its logic. |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decision-Making in Belgium |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Belgium of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Loi n°2017-20 portant Code du Numérique en République du Bénin, Livre V, droits des personnes concernées |
Tell a data subject, no later than when you collect their personal data, your identity, the purposes of the processing, the recipients, whether automated decision making is in use, how long you will keep the data, and their rights of access, rectification, erasure, and objection. Where personal data was not collected from the data subject, give them the same information within a reasonable time and at most thirty days after obtaining it, or at the first communication or disclosure of the data if that comes sooner. |
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| Law on the Protection of Personal Data of Bosnia and Herzegovina, rights of data subjects |
Tell a person, at the latest when you collect their personal data or within a reasonable period if collected elsewhere, who you are, the purpose and legal basis of the processing, the recipients, any transfer abroad, the retention period and their rights, under Articles 15 and 16. |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in Bulgaria |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Bulgaria of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Personal Data Protection Law, automated decisions |
Where the processing relies on artificial intelligence, disclose to the data subject the criteria and the nature of the personal data behind the automated decision, from the moment you collect it. |
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| Personal Data Protection Law, rights of the data subject |
Obtain a person's prior consent before sending them unsolicited direct marketing communications of any kind, tell them before their data is first used for that purpose or disclosed to a third party, and let them withdraw consent at any time. Tell a data subject, no later than when you collect their data, your identity, the purposes of the processing, the categories of data, the recipients, the rights of access, rectification, erasure and objection, the retention period, any transfer abroad, and how to give or withdraw consent. |
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| Law No. 133/V/2001 on the Protection of Personal Data, open-network warning, health-data access and marketing objection |
Warn a data subject, when their data is collected over an open network and unless they already know it, that their personal data may circulate without security conditions and risk being seen and used by unauthorized third parties. |
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| Law No. 133/V/2001 on the Protection of Personal Data, rights of data subjects |
Tell a data subject, except where they already know it, your identity and address and any representative's, the data protection officer's contact details, the categories of data, the purposes and legal basis of processing, the recipients or categories of recipients, whether a reply is mandatory or voluntary and the consequences of not replying, and the existence and conditions of the rights of access, rectification, erasure and objection, at the time of collection or, if not collected from the data subject, when the data is recorded or at the latest on first disclosure to a third party, unless the law authorizes the processing or informing them is impossible or would take disproportionate effort. |
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| Cambodia's Draft Law on Personal Data Protection, rights of data subjects proposed |
A data controller must give a data subject the information article 27 lists before processing their personal data, and must act on a request to access, rectify, erase, restrict, receive in a portable form, or object to the processing of their personal data, generally within one month of the request. |
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| Loi n°007/PR/2015, droits de la personne concernée (information, accès, opposition, rectification) |
At the point of collecting personal data, provide the data subject the controller's identity, the processing purposes, the data categories, the recipients, the retention period, and any prospect of transfer to a third country. |
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| Ley 1581 de 2012, Data Subject Rights and Procedures |
Before requesting a data subject's authorization, tell them clearly and expressly the purpose of the processing, that answering a question about sensitive data or a minor's data is optional, their rights as a data subject, and how to identify and contact you, and keep proof that you gave this notice. |
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| Law on the Protection of Personal Data, rights of data subjects |
Tell a data subject, when you collect their personal data directly from them, your identity, the processing's purpose, whether answering is mandatory, the recipients, and how to exercise the rights of objection, access and rectification. Tell a network communication user, clearly and completely, the purpose of accessing or storing information in their terminal equipment and the means available to object to it, unless the access or storage has the exclusive purpose of enabling or facilitating electronic communication or is strictly necessary to provide an online communication service at the user's express request. |
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| GDPR Article 22, Right Against Automated Individual Decision-Making |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Croatia of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| GDPR Article 22 and Law 125(I)/2018 Article 31, Decisions About a Person in Cyprus |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Cyprus of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| GDPR Articles 12-21 and Law 125(I)/2018 Article 11, Data Subject Rights in Cyprus |
Before you restrict, in whole or in part, a person's rights under GDPR Articles 12, 18, 19 or 20 in Cyprus on a ground in GDPR Article 23(1), carry out an impact assessment and consult the Commissioner, and tell the person about the restriction, under Law 125(I)/2018 Article 11. |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in the Czech Republic |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in the Czech Republic of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Law No. 2013-450 on the Protection of Personal Data, rights of the data subject |
Give the person concerned, at the latest when you collect their data, your identity, the purpose, the categories of data, the recipients, their right to refuse to appear on the file, their rights of access and rectification, the retention period, and whether the data may be transferred to a third country. Stop processing a person's data for prospecting purposes as soon as they object, free of charge, and tell them before their data are first disclosed to a third party for prospecting so they can object to that disclosure. |
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| Digital Code, Title III, rights of the data subject |
Let a data subject object at any time, on legitimate grounds, to processing of their data, offer them that right expressly and free of charge before their data is first communicated to a third party or used for prospecting, and answer an objection within thirty days. At collection, give the data subject your identity, the purposes and legal basis, the categories of data, the recipients, whether a reply is mandatory or optional, their rights of access, rectification, objection and complaint, the retention period, and any transfer to a third country; give the same information within a reasonable time when you did not collect the data from them directly. +1 more |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in Denmark |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Denmark of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| SPDP Norma General guaranteeing personal-data protection in the use of AI systems |
Inform the data subject clearly, specifically, and transparently about personal-data processing carried out through an AI system, including its purposes. |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in Estonia |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Estonia of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Data Protection Act, 2022, rights of data subjects |
If you operate a whistleblowing system, preserve fairness, proportionality and openness about its scope and purpose, and inform a person implicated in a report as soon as possible of the report's existence and the facts alleged. |
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| Personal Data Protection Proclamation, rights of data subjects |
Tell a data subject, when you obtain their personal data, who you are, the purposes and lawful basis of the processing, the recipients, any transfer to a third-party jurisdiction, the retention periods, their rights, and whether automated decision-making including profiling is in use; where the data came from elsewhere, add the categories obtained and their source, and give the information within a reasonable period and at the latest one month after obtaining it. Stop processing personal data for direct marketing, including the profiling related to it, as soon as the data subject objects, and bring the right to object to the data subject's attention explicitly. |
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| Anti-Money-Laundering Regulation, Customer Rights on Decisions Resulting from Automated Processes and AI Systems (Article 76(5)) from , in 8 months |
Let the customer obtain an explanation of the decision you have reached, except in relation to a report as referred to in Article 69 (Article 76(5), point (c)). |
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| Consumer Credit Directive, Right to Human Intervention in an Automated Creditworthiness Assessment (Article 18(8)) from , in 6 days |
Give the consumer the right to request and obtain from you a clear and comprehensible explanation of the assessment of creditworthiness, including on the logic and risks involved in the automated processing of personal data as well as its significance and effects on the decision (Article 18(8), point (a)). Inform the consumer of the right to request and obtain human intervention (Article 18(8), second subparagraph). +1 more |
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| Data Act, User Access to Connected-Product Data and Sharing with Third Parties (Articles 3 to 5) |
Before concluding a contract for the purchase, rent or lease of a connected product, and as the seller, rentor or lessor (which may be the manufacturer), give the user in a clear and comprehensible manner at least the type, format and estimated volume of product data the product is capable of generating, whether it is capable of generating data continuously and in real-time, whether it is capable of storing data on-device or on a remote server (with the intended duration of retention, where applicable), and how the user may access, retrieve or, where relevant, erase the data, including the technical means and the terms of use and quality of service (Article 3(2)). Before concluding a contract for the provision of a related service, and as the provider of the related service, give the user in a clear and comprehensible manner at least the information listed in Article 3(3), points (a) to (i), among them the nature, estimated volume and collection frequency of the product data the prospective data holder is expected to obtain, whether it expects to use readily available data itself and for which purposes, how the user can request that the data are shared with a third party, the user's right to lodge a complaint with the competent authority designated under Article 37, and the duration of the contract and the arrangements for terminating it (Article 3(3)). |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Individual Decision-Making |
Tell the data subject, when collecting their data (or, where the data came from another source, within the Article 14(3) period) and on any access request, that this kind of automated decision-making occurs, and give meaningful information about the logic involved, the significance, and the envisaged consequences. |
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| Platform Work Directive, Transparency, Human Oversight and Human Review of Automated Systems (Articles 9 to 11) from , in 3 weeks |
If you are a digital labour platform, inform persons performing platform work, platform workers' representatives and, upon request, national competent authorities of the use of automated monitoring systems or automated decision-making systems (Article 9(1)). Include in that information, for an automated monitoring system, the fact that it is in use or is in the process of being introduced, the categories of data and action monitored, supervised or evaluated, including evaluation by the recipient of the service, the aim of the monitoring and how the system carries it out, and the recipients or categories of recipient of the personal data processed and any transmission or transfer of it, including within a group of undertakings (Article 9(1), point (a)). +8 more |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in Finland |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Finland of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| GDPR Article 22, Right Against Automated Individual Decision-Making |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in France of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Loi 78-17 Articles 48 and 51 II, Rights of Minors in France |
When you collect personal data from a minor under fifteen in France, give them the information GDPR Article 13 lists in clear, easily accessible language, under Loi n. 78-17 Article 48. |
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| Law No. 025/2023, rights of the data subject and transparency obligations |
At collection, tell the person your identity, the data protection officer's contact details where designated, the purpose and legal basis, any legitimate interest relied on, recipients, any transfer abroad, the retention period or the criteria for it, their rights including withdrawal of consent, their right to complain to the APDPVP, and the existence and logic of any automated decision-making or profiling that concerns them. Where you did not collect the data from the person, give them the same categories of information, including the data's origin and whether it came from a publicly accessible source, within one month, or by the time you first contact them or first disclose the data to another recipient, whichever is earliest. |
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| Personal Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2025, rights of the data subject from a date not yet set |
Give a data subject your identity, the purposes of the processing, the recipients of the data and your legal basis, at the time you collect their personal data or within a reasonable period where you obtained it indirectly. |
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| GDPR Article 22 and BDSG Sections 31 and 37, Automated Decisions and Credit Scoring in Germany |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Germany of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in Greece |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Greece of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| GDPR Articles 12-21 and Law 4624/2019 Article 27, Data Subject Rights and Employment in Greece |
Inform employees in Greece in writing or electronically of the installation and operation of closed circuit television in the workplace, which is permitted only where necessary for the protection of persons and goods (Law 4624/2019, Article 27(7)). |
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| Data Protection Act, No. 1 of 2023, rights of data subjects from a date not yet set |
Give the data subject notice of the purpose and source of collection, their access and rectification rights, the classes of third party the data may be disclosed to, and whether supplying the data is obligatory, when they request it. |
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| Electronic Commerce Act Section 13/A, Personal Data of Recipients of Information Society Services |
Let the recipient learn, before and during use of the service, which kinds of data you process for which purposes (Section 13/A, paragraph 9). |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in Hungary |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Hungary of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Labour Code Section 11/A, Monitoring of Employees and Employer-Provided Devices |
If you monitor an employee's conduct in connection with the employment by a technical means, inform the employee of it in writing in advance (Labour Code Section 11/A, paragraph 1). |
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| Act No. 90/2018 Article 22, Automated Decisions in Iceland |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Iceland of the kind the incorporated GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under the incorporated GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Iowa Consumer Data Protection Act, consumer rights |
Offer an Iowa consumer an opt-out of the sale of personal data. If you sell personal data to third parties or engage in targeted advertising, disclose that clearly and conspicuously together with the manner in which a consumer may opt out of it. ICDPA gives no right to opt out of profiling. |
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| GDPR Article 22 and Data Protection Act 2018 Section 57, Automated Decision-Making in Ireland |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Ireland of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Health Information Act 2026 Sections 7, 8 and 13 to 15, Duty to Share Health Data and Patient Access to Electronic Health Records from a date not yet set |
After furnishing the copy, advise the patient or the specified person in writing that you have done so (Section 8, paragraph 3). |
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| GDPR Article 22 and the Garante's OpenAI/ChatGPT Enforcement |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Italy of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Data Protection Act, 2020, rights of data subjects |
Carry in every direct marketing communication the identity of the sender and an address or other contact details the recipient can use to ask that the communication cease. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2019, automated individual decision making |
Notify a data subject in writing when a decision about them is based solely on automated processing, including profiling, that produces a legal or similarly significant effect, and allow them to request reconsideration or a new decision that is not based solely on automated processing. |
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| Data Protection Act 2025, rights of a data subject |
Tell a data subject before collecting their personal data who the controller is and how to contact them, the purpose of the processing, how to exercise their Part IV rights, and how to lodge a complaint with the Digital Transformation Office, and give that information as soon as possible afterward where it could not be given beforehand. |
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| Law No. 06/L-082 on Protection of Personal Data, rights of the data subject |
Tell a data subject, at the point you collect or first obtain their personal data, your identity, the purposes and legal basis of processing, the recipients, any transfer to a third country, the storage period, and their rights, within one month where the data came from elsewhere. Stop processing personal data for direct marketing, including related profiling, as soon as a data subject objects, and bring that right to their attention explicitly and separately no later than the first communication with them. |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in Latvia |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Latvia of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Law No. 81/2018, Part V, notice, objection, access and correction |
Tell the people you collect personal data from who you are or who your representative is, what the processing is for, whether answering is mandatory or optional, what follows from not answering, who the data will be sent to, and that they may access and correct it, and print that statement explicitly and clearly on the collection form itself. Where you did not collect the data from the person, tell them personally and explicitly what the data contains, what the processing is for and that they may object to it, unless they already know or telling them is impossible or takes an effort out of proportion to the benefit. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2011, rights of data subjects |
Give a data subject notice, before or as soon as practicable after collecting personal information about them, of your name and address, the purpose of the collection, whether supply is mandatory, and the consequences of not providing it. |
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| Law No. 6 of 2022, notice, access and objection rights over personal data |
Before processing a person's data, give them notice of who is responsible for the processing and the nature, purpose, and method of the processing. |
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| DSG Automated-Decision Rights in Liechtenstein |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Liechtenstein of the kind the incorporated GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under the incorporated GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in Lithuania |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Lithuania of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions as Applied in Luxembourg |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Luxembourg of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Law No. 2014-038, rights of data subjects |
Tell a person, when you collect their personal data, who you are, the purpose of the processing, whether the information is mandatory or optional, the data categories, the recipients, their rights of objection, access, and rectification, and any transfer and its safeguards, and give the same notice, including how to object, before storing or reading information on their communications-terminal equipment. |
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| Electronic Transactions and Cyber Security Act, 2016, rights of a data subject and information notice (Part VII) |
When collecting personal data from a data subject, tell them who the data controller is, together with any representative, the purpose of the processing, and that they have rights of access, rectification and objection. |
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| Maldives Personal Data Protection Bill, rights of data subjects proposed |
A Controller must tell a data subject about the processing of their personal data and answer a request to access it, correct it, erase it, restrict its processing, receive it in a portable form, or object to the processing. |
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| Loi n° 2013-015, rights of data subjects |
At collection, or before transmitting data you did not collect directly, tell the person your identity, the purposes of processing, the categories of data, the recipients, whether answering is obligatory or optional and the consequences of not answering, their right to ask to no longer appear in the file, their rights of access and rectification, the retention period, and any transfer abroad you envisage. Before accessing or writing information to a user's connection terminal equipment over an electronic communication network, clearly and completely tell them the purpose and how to object, unless doing so is solely to enable the communication itself or is strictly necessary to supply a service the user expressly asked for. +1 more |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in Malta |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Malta of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Loi n° 2017-020, droits de la personne concernée |
Tell the person, at the time of collection, who is responsible for the processing, its purpose, the categories of data, whether a reply is mandatory or optional, and any recipients, and let them access, object to, correct, or delete their data on request. Where you did not collect the data from the person directly, give them the same information when you record it or, if you plan to disclose it, no later than the first disclosure. +1 more |
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| Moldova Law No. 195/2024, rights of the data subject |
Give a data subject, at collection, your identity and contact details, the purposes and legal basis of the processing, the recipients, any transfer abroad, the retention period and their rights, and where the data came from elsewhere, its source and the categories concerned. |
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| Loi sur la Protection des Données Personnelles, droits de la personne concernée |
Tell a person, at the point you collect their data, who you are, the purposes and legal basis of the processing, any legitimate interest relied on, the categories of data, the retention period or the criteria for setting one, whether a reply from them is mandatory, the right to withdraw consent, the recipients, how to exercise their rights, the right to complain to the Authority, whether automated decision making including profiling is in use, and any transfer outside Monaco and its safeguards. Stop processing a person's data for direct marketing, including any profiling tied to it, the moment they object, and flag that right to them clearly and separately no later than the first communication. |
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| Law on Protection of Personal Data, decisions made without human involvement |
Explain to a Mongolian data subject a decision made by processing their data electronically without human involvement, and its consequences. |
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| Law on Personal Data Protection, rights of the data subject |
Give a person from whom you collect personal data directly notice of your name and address, the purpose and legal basis of processing, the third party or user and the legal basis for disclosing to it, whether giving the data is mandatory or voluntary, and their rights of access and rectification, under Article 20, and give a similar notice no later than immediately before processing begins where the data were not collected directly, under Article 21. |
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| Law No. 09-08, rights of the data subject |
Before or when you collect personal data directly from the data subject, tell them, expressly, precisely, and unambiguously, your identity, the purposes of the processing, and, where fair processing requires it, the recipients, whether their response is mandatory, and their access and rectification rights. Where you did not collect the data from the data subject, give them that same information no later than the first disclosure to a third party, unless they already have it. |
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| Electronic Transactions Law, data subject rights and information notice |
Where personal data was not collected from the data subject directly, give the subject the reason it was collected and your identity as the processor, by the time the data is first disclosed to a third party, unless notice is impossible, disproportionately burdensome, permitted by law, or the data is collected for statistical, historical, or scientific purposes. Make available to any person specific information about your policies and practices for managing personal information, including who to contact with a complaint or question, how to obtain access to personal information you retain, and a description of the type of personal information retained and its general use. |
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| GDPR Article 22 and UAVG Article 40, Automated Decisions in the Netherlands |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in the Netherlands of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Ley No. 787, Ley de Protección de Datos Personales, rights of data subjects |
Before obtaining a data subject's personal data, tell them, expressly and clearly, the purpose and possible recipients, the existence and location of the file and who is responsible for it, whether answering is mandatory or optional, the consequences of refusing or of giving inaccurate data, and their rights of access, rectification, and cancellation. Tell a data subject about the privacy policies you adopt and notify them of any change to those policies. |
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| Loi n° 2022-59, droits des personnes concernées |
Give the data subject information about the processing no later than the time you collect their data. Let a person know and contest the information and reasoning used in any processing of their data, automated or not, whose results are used against them, and, where the processing involves artificial intelligence, tell them the criteria and the nature of the personal data behind it from the point of collection. |
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| Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023, rights of a data subject |
Carry a clause on the right to lodge a complaint with the Commission in every regulation, policy, framework or legal instrument of yours that pertains to processing personal data, and answer a Standard Notice to Address Grievance a data subject serves on you. Give a data subject the information section 27 of the Act requires in clear terms, taking their circumstances into account. |
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| Personal Data Act, Automated Decisions in Norway |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Norway of the kind the incorporated GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under the incorporated GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Ley N° 7593/2025, automated or semi-automated individual decisions from , in 12 months |
Let a data subject ask for review of a decision based on automated processing of their personal data that adversely affects their interests or produces legal effects, express their point of view and contest it, and on request give them clear, complete information about the criteria and procedures the decision used. |
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| Ley N° 7593/2025, derechos del titular de datos from , in 12 months |
Tell a data subject what article 27 requires about the processing of their personal data. |
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| Ley 29733, rights of the data subject |
Tell a person, in detailed, simple, express and unequivocal terms before collecting their personal data, the purpose of the processing, who its recipients are, the data bank's existence and its owner's identity and address, whether their answers are mandatory or optional, any transfer, how long you will keep the data, and how to exercise their rights; an easily accessible and identifiable privacy policy satisfies this for data collected online. Tell a person when you engage a new processor after they gave consent, or when a merger, portfolio acquisition, or similar transfer gives their data a new data-bank owner. |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in Poland |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Poland of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in Portugal |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Portugal of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Québec | Automated decision-making notice and review right |
Before or at the time you communicate a decision based exclusively on automated processing of personal information, tell the person that the decision was made this way. |
| Law No. 29-2019, rights of the data subject |
At collection, give the data subject your identity, the purposes and categories of data, the recipients, whether a reply is obligatory or optional and the consequences of not replying, their right to be removed from the file, their rights of access and rectification, the retention period, and any transfer envisaged to a third country. Let a data subject object to processing of their personal data on legitimate grounds, and tell them, before their data is first communicated to or used by a third party for prospecting, of their free right to object to it. |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in Romania |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Romania of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Law relating to the Protection of Personal Data and Privacy, rights of the data subject |
Before or when collecting personal data, tell the data subject your identity and contact details, the purposes and recipients, whether provision is mandatory, their rights including to withdraw consent, access, rectify, restrict, erase, object and appeal, the retention period, and the existence and consequences of any automated decision making. |
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| Telecommunications Act 2005, confidentiality and protection of customer personal information |
Identify the purposes for which customer information is collected at or before collection, and do not collect, use, maintain, or disclose customer information for an undisclosed purpose without the customer's consent or legal authority. |
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| San Marino Law No. 171, rights of the data subject |
Give a data subject, at collection, your identity and contact details, the purposes and legal basis of the processing, the recipients, any transfer abroad, the retention period and their rights, and where the data came from elsewhere, its source and the categories concerned. |
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| Lei n.º 03/2016, rights of the data holder |
Inform the data holder, at collection, of your identity, the purpose of the processing, and their right of access and rectification, and where you did not collect the data from the holder directly, give that information by the time you register the data or before you first disclose it to a third party. |
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| Loi n° 2008-12 du 25 janvier 2008 sur la Protection des Données à Caractère Personnel, droits de la personne concernée |
Tell the person, at the time of collection, who is responsible for the processing, its purpose, the categories of data, whether a reply is mandatory or optional, and any recipients, and let them access, object to, correct, or delete their data on request. Where you did not collect the data from the person directly, give them the same information when you record it or, if you plan to disclose it, no later than the first disclosure, unless it falls within the state-security, defence, criminal-enforcement, or major economic-interest exemption. +1 more |
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| Law on Personal Data Protection, rights of the data subject |
Tell a person, at the time you collect their personal data from them, your identity and contact details, the purpose and legal basis of processing, the recipients, any cross-border transfer, the retention period, and their rights. Where personal data was not collected from the person, give them the same information, plus its source and category, within a reasonable time and no later than when you first communicate with them or disclose the data to someone else. +1 more |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in Slovakia |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Slovakia of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in Slovenia |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Slovenia of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Data Protection Act, 2023, information to the data subject and rights of the data subject |
Before you collect personal data, tell the data subject who you are, the basis and purposes of the processing, who you will share the data with, their rights and their right to complain to the Authority, and describe any automated decision-making and its likely consequences. |
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| Protection of Personal Information Act, rights of data subjects |
Before or when you collect personal information, tell the data subject what is being collected and its source, your identity, the purpose of collection, whether supplying it is voluntary or mandatory, any intended transfer to another country, and their rights of access, correction, objection and complaint to the Information Regulator. |
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| Personal Information Protection Act, rights regarding automated decisions |
An app that makes a decision about a Korean data subject using a fully automated system, including one applying artificial intelligence, that significantly affects the subject's rights or obligations, must let the subject object to or request an explanation of the decision, must not apply the decision over an objection absent a compelling reason or must reprocess it with human involvement, and must disclose the criteria and procedures it uses for automated decisions. |
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| GDPR Article 22 and LOPDGDD Article 11(2), Automated Decisions in Spain |
If you use a person's data in Spain for profiling, state in the basic information you give them that they may object to a solely automated decision that produces legal or similarly significant effects on them, where GDPR Article 22 gives that right, under LOPDGDD Article 11(2). If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Spain of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Draft Law on the Protection of Privacy and Personal Data, rights of the data subject proposed |
Give a data subject the transparency information article 10(3) lists, including your identity, the purposes and legal basis of processing, recipients, retention period, and their rights, at collection, or, where the data did not come from the data subject, within a reasonable time and at latest within one month. Let a data subject obtain confirmation that you are processing their personal data, and on request give them the reasons underlying a decision produced by processing their data. |
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| GDPR Article 22, Automated Decisions in Sweden |
If you make solely automated decisions about a person in Sweden of the kind GDPR Article 22(1) and (4) describe, including profiling, tell them so and give them meaningful information about the logic involved and the significance and envisaged consequences for them: when you collect their data, within the Article 14(3) period where you obtained it from someone else, and in answering their access request, under GDPR Articles 13(2)(f), 14(2)(g) and 15(1)(h). |
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| Loi n° 2019-014, droits de la personne concernée |
Tell a data subject, at the latest when you collect their personal data directly from them, your identity, the purposes of the processing, the categories of data and recipients, whether answering is mandatory, their right to be excluded from the file, their rights of access and rectification, the retention period, and any transfer abroad you envisage. Let a data subject object, on legitimate grounds, to the processing of their personal data, and tell them before their data is first disclosed to or used by a third party for prospecting, offering a free right to object to it, unless the processing meets a legal obligation. |
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| Privacy Act 2025, notification to data subjects and rights of data subjects from a date not yet set |
At the time you collect personal information, tell the data subject your identity and contact details, that you are collecting it, the purpose including any direct marketing, whether sensitive personal information is collected and of what nature, and who the intended recipients are. |
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| Organic Act on the Protection of Personal Data, rights of the data subject |
Give the person written notice, at least one month before processing their data, of its nature, the processing's purpose, whether their answer is mandatory or optional, the recipient's and your own identity and address, their rights of access, withdrawal and objection, the retention period, a summary of your security measures, and the destination country of any transfer. |
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| Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2019, rights of data subjects |
Before or as soon as practicable after collecting personal data, tell the data subject its nature and category, your name and address, the purpose, whether supplying it is discretionary or mandatory, the consequences of not providing it, the recipients, their rights of access and rectification, and the retention period. |
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| Draft Law No. 8153, automated decision making proposed |
Disclose your automated decision making mechanisms to a data subject in Ukraine, under Article 18. |
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| Ley N° 18.331, rights of data subjects |
Before or when you collect personal data, tell the data subject expressly, precisely, and unambiguously the purpose of the processing and who may receive it, the existence and identity of the database's controller, whether answering is mandatory, the consequences of refusing or of inaccuracy, their rights of access, rectification, and challenge, whether the data will be transferred internationally, and, for an automated-decision process, the valuation criteria, the process applied, and the technology or program used. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2021, rights of the data subject |
Stop processing personal data for direct marketing as soon as the data subject objects, and bring the rights of objection to their attention clearly and separately at your first communication with them. |
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| Cyber and Data Protection Act, rights of the data subject |
Give a data subject notice of who is responsible for processing and why, and let them access, object to, correct, or have deleted false or misleading personal data about them. Make the disclosures section 15 requires when you collect personal information directly from the data subject. |
Comprehensive regime
42 laws, 41 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Law on the Protection of Personal Data |
Obtain the data subject's consent or the APD's authorisation before processing personal data on their creditworthiness or solvency, unless the information comes from a publicly accessible source, and notify the data subject within sixty days of entering their data in a debtor file. |
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| Ley 25.326, Ley de Protección de los Datos Personales |
As a public body, create, modify, or suppress a database only through a general disposition published in the Official Gazette that states the file's characteristics and purpose, how data is obtained and updated, and where a data subject can exercise their rights. |
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| Law of the Republic of Belarus On Personal Data Protection |
As a republican public authority operator, publicize on your official website the information resources containing the personal data you own, under Article 16, paragraph 2. |
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| Information, Communications and Media Act of Bhutan 2018, data protection and privacy duties |
An app that collects, uses, or discloses the personal data of an individual in Bhutan, including a voiceprint, faceprint, or other biometric identifier, must obtain the subject's express written permission before collecting it and must not disclose it to a third party without authorization. An ICT or media service provider or vendor must additionally publish a privacy policy, limit collection and use to what is reasonably appropriate, store and use data only for its intended purpose, and remain responsible for data it transfers to a third party. |
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| Reglamento para el Desarrollo de TIC, Tratamiento de los Datos Personales |
Before asking someone for their personal data, tell them it will be processed, why, who may receive it, who is responsible for it and how to reach that party, and that they may exercise access, rectification, updating, cancellation, objection, and revocation rights. |
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| Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais (LGPD) |
As a public body, publish clear, up to date information about the legal basis, purpose and procedures for any processing you carry out, name a person in charge for it, and do not pass on personal data you hold to a private entity except in the cases the law lists. |
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| British Columbia | Personal Information Protection Act, comprehensive regime |
On or before collecting personal information from an individual, disclose the purposes of the collection verbally or in writing and, on request, the position name or title and contact information of an officer or employee who can answer the individual's questions. This does not apply to a collection covered by implicit consent under section 8 (1) or (2). |
| Law No. 133/V/2001 on the Protection of Personal Data |
Publish, through the CNPD's public register, or make available to anyone who asks, the particulars of a processing operation not covered by a legal provision. |
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| California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (Proposition 24) |
If your app is a for-profit business meeting the CCPA's revenue or data-volume threshold and it determines the purposes and means of processing a California consumer's personal information, honor the CCPA/CPRA's notice, opt-out, and non-discrimination duties before collecting, selling, or sharing that data. Disclose at or before collection the categories of personal information you collect, your purpose for collecting it, and the retention period or the criteria you use to set it. |
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| Bill C-36, Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act proposed |
Would require organizations to be transparent about their use of automated decision making for significant decisions about individuals, set higher standards for handling children's information, and obtain meaningful consent supported by plain-language explanations. |
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| Loi n°007/PR/2015, principes directeurs du traitement des données (consentement, licéité, finalité, conservation) |
Inform the data subject about the processing of their personal data, and process it confidentially and with security measures against unauthorized access. |
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| SB 21-190, Colorado Privacy Act (CPA) |
If you process the personal data of Colorado residents at the qualifying volume thresholds, give clear privacy notice and honor consumer requests to access, correct, delete, and port their data within 45 days. |
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| Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), general applicability and controller/processor duties |
If you use facial recognition technology on your premises to prevent, detect or respond to security incidents, fraud or similar activity, use it only to match images against a database you maintain, and post signage at each entrance, other than an entrance to an area restricted to authorized employees, that links to your facial recognition technology policy. |
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| Protección de la Persona frente al Tratamiento de sus Datos Personales |
Before collecting a person's personal data, inform them of the purpose of collection and obtain their express, written consent, unless the data are publicly accessible or a law or judicial order compels disclosure. |
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| Ley para la Protección de Datos Personales |
Before transferring personal data to another party, obtain the data subject's prior consent and tell them the transfer's purpose and the recipient's identity. |
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| General Data Protection Regulation, Principles Relating to Processing of Personal Data and Accountability (Article 5) |
Process personal data lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject (Article 5(1), point (a)). |
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| Act on the Protection of Privacy in Working Life, Sections 15 to 17, Genetic Testing and Camera Surveillance of Employees |
Before introducing camera surveillance, examine less intrusive means, keep the intrusion on employee privacy to what is necessary, use recordings only for the purposes of the surveillance, inform employees after the cooperation or consultation procedure, and announce the surveillance visibly in the premises where cameras are placed (Section 17, paragraph 1). |
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| Data Protection Act |
Tell a data subject, before or as soon as practicable after collecting their personal data, the nature of the data, your identity, the purpose of collection, the recipients, and whether supplying the data is mandatory or discretionary. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2020, registration, lawful basis and standards for processing |
Give the data subject your identity, the identity of your data protection officer, the purposes of the processing, the recipients you contemplate disclosing to, the expected retention period and the legal authority for seeking the data, before you first process it. |
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| Act on the Protection of Personal Information, comprehensive regime and lawful basis |
An app that collects, uses, or discloses the personal data of an individual in Japan must give notice of, or publicly disclose, its purpose of use before or promptly after collection, must not acquire the data by wrongful or deceptive means, and must confine use to the stated purpose unless a statutory exception or the data subject's consent applies. |
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| Act on the Protection of Personal Information, personal information of persons under 16 from a date not yet set |
Give the notice or public announcement of the purpose of use that Article 21 requires, and the notice of a data breach that Article 26(2) requires, to the legal representative of a person under 16 and not to the person (Article 40-2(1)). |
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| Data Protection Act of Liberia |
Before personal information enters your system, or at the next practical opportunity, give the data subject the description, purposes, scope and method of processing, the recipients, your identity and contact details, the storage period and the existence of the rights of access, correction and complaint. |
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| Labour Code Article L.261-1, Monitoring of Employees and Personal Data in the Employment Relationship |
Before the monitoring starts, inform the joint committee or, failing it, the staff delegation or, failing that, the Labour and Mines Inspectorate, or for statutory staff the staff representation bodies, with a detailed description of the purpose, the way the system works and any retention period or criteria, and give a formal commitment not to use the data for another purpose (Article L.261-1, paragraph 2). |
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| Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de los Particulares (LFPDPPP) |
Give the data subject a privacy notice, at or before the first collection of their personal data, stating your identity and address, the categories of data collected and which are sensitive, the purposes that require consent, the options to limit use or disclosure, the ARCO mechanisms, and how you will communicate any change to the notice. |
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| Electronic Transactions Law, Protection of Personal Electronic Data |
Specify the purpose for collecting personal data and your identity as the processor before collecting it, and limit any later use to that stated purpose. |
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| New Hampshire Data Privacy Act (NHDPA), general applicability and controller and processor duties |
Limit personal data collection to what is adequate, relevant, and reasonably necessary, and describe your purposes in a privacy notice. |
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| Privacy Act 2020, Information Privacy Principle 3A (Indirect-Collection Notice) |
If you collect personal information about an individual other than from that individual, including by scraping it from a third-party source, take reasonable steps to make the individual aware, as soon as practicable after collection, of the fact of collection, its purpose, the intended recipients, your identity, any legal authority for the collection, and their access and correction rights. |
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| Nigeria Data Protection Act, 2023 (NDPA), general data protection duties |
Before deploying data processing software that tracks a data subject or opens a communication link with one, carry out an impact assessment, design it for privacy by design and by default, put a data privacy policy inside the software, and give a prospective user a privacy statement before installation. |
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| Law on Personal Data Protection (LPDP), video surveillance |
Publish a clear, visible notice that video surveillance is in place before operating it, naming the controller and explaining how to learn the place and storage period of the recordings, and notify employees of video surveillance on official or business premises. |
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| Ley 81 de 2019, Sobre Protección de Datos Personales |
Present a clear, distinguishable privacy notice before collecting personal data online, and keep any bundled consent request identifiable from the rest of the terms. |
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| Québec | Act respecting the protection of personal information in the private sector, comprehensive regime |
Before collecting personal information through technology with functions that identify, locate or profile the individual, disclose that use and the means available to activate those functions. |
| Data Protection Act, 2018 from a date not yet set |
Before collecting personal data, tell the data subject the purpose of collection, the source of the data where available, the classes of third party it may be disclosed to, whether supplying the data is obligatory or voluntary, and how to request access or correction. |
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| Data Protection Act |
Before collecting personal data directly from a person, tell them what is being collected, why, who will receive it, whether providing it is mandatory, the consequences of not providing it, and their rights to access, correct, and have it destroyed. |
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| Lei n.º 03/2016, Protecção de Dados Pessoais |
Where your processing is exempt from notification, still give any person who asks your identity, the processing's purposes, and the data holder's rights of access and rectification. |
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| Personal Data Protection Act, comprehensive consent-based regime |
An app that collects, uses, or discloses the personal data of an individual in Singapore must obtain the individual's consent, or rely on a Part 3 or Schedule exception, and must state its purpose for the collection, use, or disclosure. |
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| Telecommunications Act 2009, Confidentiality and Consent Duties |
Disclose to a consumer the purpose of collecting information about them, and do not use or maintain that information for an undisclosed purpose. |
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| Law on the Protection of Personal Data, comprehensive regime |
An app that collects or processes the personal data of individuals in Tajikistan must obtain the subject's consent, limit processing to a specific, predetermined, lawful purpose, and notify the subject of the data collected about them with a right to correction. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2011 |
Make available to individuals your policies and practices for managing personal information, and give an individual the ability to challenge your compliance with these Principles and a timely, appropriate response. |
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| Organic Act on the Protection of Personal Data |
Obtain the INPDP's prior authorization before using video surveillance, confine it to the listed categories of place, never pair it with audio recording, and post clear, permanent notice that it is in use. |
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| Ley N° 18.331, Personal Data Protection and Habeas Data Law |
Communicate personal data to a third party only for a purpose directly tied to the sender's and recipient's legitimate interest, only with the data subject's prior consent, and only after telling them the purpose of the communication and identifying the recipient. |
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| Utah Consumer Privacy Act |
Provide Utah consumers a reasonably accessible, clear privacy notice describing the categories of personal data you process, the purposes, how consumers may exercise their rights, and any third parties you share data with, if you meet UCPA's 25 million dollar revenue and consumer-volume thresholds. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2021, personal data processing framework |
Do not disclose personal data without the data subject's consent, and before any disclosure tell them when and to whom it will be disclosed, why, what policies will protect it, and how to complain. |
Telephone contact
40 laws, 26 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Telecommunications (Telemarketing and Research Calls) Industry Standard 2017 |
As soon as a call that is not a research call starts, give the caller's given name (unless the call uses only a recorded or synthetic voice), the business name of the caller's employer or, if self-employed, the caller's own business name, the name of whoever caused the call to be made, and the purpose of the call, unless the recipient ends the call first or the caller ends it within 5 seconds without speaking to them; for a research call, give the same information except that the identity of whoever caused the call may instead be given on request or before the call ends. On request, give the contact details of the caller's employer or, if self-employed, the caller's own details, the contact details of whoever caused the call to be made, and the name and contact details of whoever handles inquiries or complaints; contact details must include a business name and an Australian number that can take voice calls during normal business hours, plus at least one current street, postal, email or web address. +2 more |
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| TKG 2021 |
Do not suppress or falsify the caller identification on a telephone call for advertising purposes, and do not cause the service provider to suppress or falsify it. |
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| Automatic Dialing-Announcing Devices Act |
Before disseminating the prerecorded message, give the person called an unrecorded, natural-voice announcement stating the nature of the call and the caller's name and either an address or telephone number, ask whether the person consents to hear the prerecorded message, and, if the message uses an artificial voice (one generated or significantly altered using artificial intelligence), disclose that fact; disconnect the device when either party ends the call. |
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| Consumers Legal Remedies Act, Unsolicited Prerecorded Telephone Messages |
Before disseminating an unsolicited prerecorded telephone message, first give the person answering an unrecorded, natural-voice statement of your name or the organization you represent and either your address or telephone number, and get that person's consent to listen to the prerecorded message. |
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| Unsolicited Advertisements by Facsimile Machine |
Mark the date and time sent, your business or individual identity, and the telephone number of the sending machine or your business on the top or bottom margin, or the first page, of every fax communication you send to or from California, whether or not it is an advertisement. |
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| Telecommunications Act, Unsolicited Telecommunications and the National Do Not Call List |
If you rely on one of those exemptions other than the survey exemption, identify at the beginning of the call the purpose of the telecommunication and the person or organization on whose behalf it is made, and maintain your own do-not-call list honouring anyone who has asked not to be contacted on that basis. |
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| Connecticut Telemarketing Act (Conn. Gen. Stat. 42-284 to 42-289, as substantially rewritten by Public Act 23-98) |
Limit a telephonic sales call to between nine a.m. and eight p.m. local time; within ten seconds after the call begins, disclose your identity, the purpose of the call and, if applicable, the entity you represent; ask at the outset whether the consumer wishes to continue, end the call or be removed from your list; and end the call within ten seconds of the consumer indicating a wish to end it. Do not install or use a device or service to circumvent a consumer's caller identification, and do not transmit inaccurate or misleading caller identification information. |
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| Delaware Telemarketing Fraud Act |
At the beginning of a solicitation call and before any sales pitch, disclose that the call's purpose is to sell specific merchandise, the telemarketer's name and the name of the seller on whose behalf the call is made, and accurate information about the merchandise offered. |
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| Consumer Rights Directive |
It reaches you if you are a trader in a distance contract with a consumer for the supply of financial services (Article 3(1b) of Directive 2011/83/EU) and you communicate with the consumer by voice telephony: make your identity and the commercial purpose of the call you initiate explicitly clear at the beginning of any call with the consumer (Article 16a(3), first sentence). |
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| Consumer Rights Directive |
It reaches you if you are a trader, meaning a natural or legal person, whether privately or publicly owned, acting for purposes relating to your trade, business, craft or profession (Article 2, point (2)), and you make a telephone call to a consumer with a view to concluding a distance contract (Article 2, point (7)): at the beginning of the conversation, disclose your identity, where applicable the identity of the person on whose behalf you make the call, and the commercial purpose of the call (Article 8(5)). It does not reach a contract that Article 3(3) excludes, or a distance contract for the supply of financial services, because Article 3(1b) applies to such a contract only the Articles it lists, and Article 8(5) is not among them. |
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| European Electronic Communications Code |
It reaches you if you provide an internet access service or a publicly available number-based interpersonal communications service, meaning an interpersonal communications service that connects with publicly assigned numbering resources or enables communication with a number in a national or international numbering plan (Article 2, point (6), and Article 115(1)): where the competent authority of the Member State requires it, make calling-line identification available free of charge, subject to technical feasibility, so that the calling party's number is presented to the called party prior to the call being established (Article 115(1) and Annex VI, Part B, point (a)). Where you make calling-line identification available, provide it in accordance with the relevant law on protection of personal data and privacy, in particular Directive 2002/58/EC, and, to the extent technically feasible, provide data and signals to facilitate the offering of calling-line identity and tone dialling across Member State boundaries (Annex VI, Part B, point (a)). |
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| Florida Telemarketing Act |
Do not intentionally prevent transmission of your name or telephone number to the party called when your equipment can create and transmit it, and do not use technology that displays a different caller identification number than the one the call actually originates from to conceal your identity. |
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| Florida Telephone Solicitation Act (section 501.059 as rewritten in 2021) |
Identify yourself immediately, by your true first and last name and the business on whose behalf you are soliciting, upon making contact in an unsolicited telephonic sales call. Transmit your originating telephone number, and your name where your carrier makes it available, to the caller identification service of anyone you place a telephonic sales call to, and do not intentionally alter your voice to disguise your identity in order to defraud, confuse, or injure the recipient. |
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| Code de la consommation Articles L. 223-1, L. 223-2 and L. 221-16 as Rewritten in 2025, Prior Consent to Telephone Canvassing of Consumers |
When you collect a consumer's telephone data, tell the consumer that any commercial telephone solicitation needs their prior consent, unless it is made in the performance of a current contract. Where you collect the data on concluding a contract, state in the contract, clearly and understandably, that canvassing a consumer by telephone without prior consent is prohibited. |
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| Telekommunikation-Digitale-Dienste-Datenschutz-Gesetz, Caller Number Display in Advertising Calls |
When you call a person to advertise to them, do not suppress the display of your telephone number and do not have your telecommunications provider suppress it, and ensure that the number assigned to you is transmitted to the person called (section 15(2)). |
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| Illinois Automatic Telephone Dialers Act |
Disconnect within 30 seconds after the call ends; if that is not technically feasible, have a live operator state their name, the name, address, and telephone number of the business or organization represented, and the purpose of the call, and ask at the outset whether the called person consents to hear the prerecorded message. Do not use an autodialer to dial numbers by successively increasing or decreasing digits, and do not operate it in a way that impedes a called party's caller ID display when your equipment can display your number. |
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| Illinois Telephone Solicitations Act |
As a live operator, immediately state your name, the name of the business or organization you represent, and the purpose of the call, ask at the outset whether the called person consents to the solicitation, and do not continue without that consent. Do not solicit in a way that impedes a called party's caller ID display when your equipment can display your number. |
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| Registro pubblico delle opposizioni (Public Register of Oppositions), Codice Privacy Article 130(3) to (3-quater) and Presidential Decree 26/2022 |
When you call for those purposes, guarantee the presentation of your calling line identification. At the time of the call, or in the paper mailing, state that the person's data were lawfully extracted from the subscriber lists or from other sources and give the information useful for registering in the register. |
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| Maryland prerecorded-message dialing and caller number blocking rules |
If your telephone service or equipment lets you choose whether to display your number, do not block or otherwise prevent its transmission to the person you are soliciting. |
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| Maryland Stop the Spam Calls Act of 2023 |
On every telephone solicitation, transmit your originating telephone number, and your name where your carrier makes it available, to the called party's caller identification service (the seller's name and customer service number may stand in), do not act to block that transmission, and do not use technology that displays a different number to conceal your identity. |
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| Automatic Telephone Dialing Systems and Telephone Solicitation Disclosures |
Before saying anything else besides a greeting, state your identity, the trade name of the person you represent, and the kind of goods or services you are offering, when soliciting a sale by telephone at a prospective buyer's residence, and do not use a plan, scheme, or ruse that misrepresents your true status or purpose for doing so. |
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| Telemarketing Solicitation Act |
Identify yourself, the company you are calling on behalf of, and the purpose of the call within the first minute of a telephonic sales call, before requesting, accepting, or arranging for payment, and disclose the ultimate seller's name and a complete and accurate description of the goods or services offered, including their retail value, plus the cost, any restrictions, and the refund and cancellation terms, before accepting payment. |
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| Home Solicitation Sales Act, Telephone Solicitation Rules (as amended effective 2003) |
At the start of a telephone solicitation to a residential subscriber, state your name and the full name of the organization or person on whose behalf the call is made, and provide on request a telephone number answered by a natural person who can describe the organization and the solicitation; do not intentionally block or interfere with the caller ID display of your number. |
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| Telephone Companies as Common Carriers Act, Recorded Commercial Advertising and Caller Identification (section 25 as amended effective 1999) |
Do not deliver or attempt to deliver intrastate commercial advertising while blocking the display of caller identification information the subscriber would otherwise see. |
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| Montana Telemarketing Registration and Fraud Prevention Act |
When contacting a consumer, promptly and clearly disclose your identity, that the purpose of the call is to sell goods or services, the nature of the goods or services, and that no purchase or payment is necessary to win a prize or enter a prize promotion. |
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| Telephone Solicitation No-Call List Act |
State your identity clearly at the start of every telephone solicitation call to a Montana residential subscriber, and do not knowingly block or circumvent the subscriber's caller identification service. |
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| Telecommunicatiewet (Telecommunications Act), Article 11.7(2), (6) and (8), Prior Consent for Unsolicited Communication to Natural Persons by Other Means (as rewritten in 2021) |
When you send such communication through a public telephone service, do not use the facility that blocks the provision of the calling number (Article 11.9(1)(a)). |
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| Nevada Deceptive Trade Practice Rules for Telephone and Text Solicitations |
Do not block or otherwise intentionally circumvent a service used to identify you as the caller, and do not place an unsolicited call that such a service cannot identify by your telephone number or business name, unless identification is not technically feasible. When soliciting a sale or lease by telephone, identify yourself, whom you represent and the purpose of the call within 30 seconds after the conversation begins. |
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| Nevada Device for Automatic Dialing and Announcing Statute |
Before a device for automatic dialing and announcing plays a prerecorded sales message, have a recorded or unrecorded natural voice tell the person who answers the nature of the call, including that such a device will deliver the message if they stay on the line, and give the name, address and telephone number of the business or organization you represent. Whatever equipment you use, do not disseminate an unsolicited prerecorded sales message by telephone in the course of your business to a person with whom you have no preexisting business relationship unless a natural voice first gives the nature of the call and your business's name, address and telephone number. |
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| Nevada Telephone Solicitation Registry (Do Not Call List) |
Do not make an unsolicited call for the sale of goods or services to a number on the currently effective registry list, unless you have a preexisting business relationship with that person (a purchase or other financial transaction directly with you within the preceding 18 months), keep an internal do-not-call registry of people who asked you not to call, and send each such customer an annual written notice explaining how to join it. |
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| New Hampshire Automatic Telephone Dialing Systems and Caller Identification Services Act |
Disclose the name of the caller, the purpose of the call and any goods or services offered immediately after the called party answers, and configure the system to disconnect within 30 seconds after the called party hangs up. Do not use per-call or per-line blocking, or any other method, to prevent your caller identification information from reaching the called party; that information must include a number at which you can receive calls and may not be misleading, inaccurate or deceptive. |
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| Commercial telephone seller registration and unlawful telemarketing practices |
Do not use equipment or techniques designed to block or avoid detection of your identity or telephone number by caller identification devices, and do not use automatic dialing equipment that results in more than five percent abandoned calls a day in a calling campaign. |
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| Telephone Solicitation Act of 2022 |
Transmit your originating telephone number, and your name when your carrier makes it available, to the recipient's caller identification service; you may substitute the seller's name and its customer service number, answered during regular business hours, and any number you display must be able to receive calls and connect the caller to you or to the seller. As a commercial telephone seller or salesperson, do not make a commercial telephone solicitation call before 8 a.m. or after 8 p.m. in the called person's time zone, or more than three such calls to one person in 24 hours on the same subject matter from any number, and do not block your name or number or display a different caller identification number to conceal your identity. |
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| Oregon Registration of Telephonic Sellers |
When you represent free items, offer metals, stones or minerals or an oil, gas or mineral interest, or offer office equipment or supplies below usual prices, give the prospective purchaser, at the time of the solicitation and before any sale, the street address you are calling from, your principal address, and the further information ORS 646.557 lists for that kind of offer. |
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| Telemarketer Registration Act |
During the initial contact, disclose promptly the purpose of the call, your name and what you are selling; give the caller's name, the name of the person on whose behalf you call and, on request, a contact number or address; end the solicitation when the called party indicates they want to end it. Do not act to block or falsify your name or number on the recipient's caller identification, or to circumvent, bypass or disable a call-screening product the subscriber uses, and do not use any technology or any synthetic or computer-generated messaging to defraud, deceive or mislead a subscriber. |
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| Automatic Dial Announcing Devices |
State the nature of the call, your identity, and the number you are calling from within the first 30 seconds of the recorded message, add the pay-per-call disclosures where the call promotes such a service, and keep a solicitation message shorter than 30 seconds unless the device can recognize an answering machine and end the call within 30 seconds. |
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| Texas No-Call List, Facsimile Solicitation Notice, and Caller Identification Rules |
When you make a facsimile solicitation from Texas, include in at least 12-point type your complete name and street address and a toll-free or local number answered by a person on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or that automatically deletes the recipient's number; on a stop request, send a written acknowledgment within 24 hours and make no further transmission to that number. In making a telemarketing call, do not block your number, interfere with or circumvent a caller identification service, fail to provide caller identification information you are capable of providing, or transmit misleading caller identification information; you may substitute the name and number of the person on whose behalf you call. |
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| PECR, Automated Calls, Facsimile and Live Telephone Calls for Direct Marketing |
Get the called subscriber's prior consent before transmitting, or instigating the transmission of, recorded matter for direct marketing purposes by an automated calling or communication system (one that can automatically dial a sequence of numbers and play sounds that are not live speech), and either do not prevent presentation of your calling line's identity or present a line on which you can be contacted. Whether or not the call is solicited, do not prevent presentation of your calling line's identity, or present a line on which you can be contacted, when making a call for direct marketing purposes. +1 more |
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| Virginia Telephone Privacy Protection Act |
On a solicitation made by telephone call, identify yourself by your first and last name and name the person on whose behalf you are calling, promptly upon making contact. On every solicitation, transmit your telephone number, and your name where your carrier makes it available, through a number at which any individual can ask during regular business hours not to receive solicitations (for a text message, a number that accepts a reply-text opt-out), and do not block that transmission or cause false or misleading caller-identification information to display; the seller's name and customer service number may be substituted. +1 more |
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| Telephone Solicitation Act |
Identify yourself and the company or organization on whose behalf you are calling, and the purpose of the call, within the first 30 seconds of a telephone solicitation call. |
Commercial messages
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| Spam Act 2003, Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Messages |
Every commercial electronic message with an Australian link, including a designated commercial electronic message, must clearly and accurately identify the individual or organisation who authorised it and include accurate contact information for them, reasonably likely to stay valid for at least 30 days. |
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| TKG 2021 |
Do not send direct-marketing electronic mail that disguises or conceals the identity of the sender on whose behalf the message is sent. Do not send direct-marketing electronic mail that violates section 6(1) of the E-Commerce-Gesetz, which requires a commercial communication to be clearly and unmistakably recognizable as such and to show who commissioned it. |
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| Electronic Commerce Act, Articles 5(3) and 6, Identification of Commercial Messages and Unsolicited Commercial Messages |
Make a commercial message that is part of an information society service, or is one, easily recognizable as commercial, clearly identify the persons on whose behalf it is made, state clearly and unambiguously the terms of any promotional offer such as discounts, premiums and gifts, and give easy access to clear terms for contests and games with announced prizes (Article 5, paragraph 3, points 1 to 4). |
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| Electronic Communications Act, Article 261, Consent and Opt-out for Direct Marketing Calls, Messages and Electronic Mail |
Do not send a marketing or advertising message, even with consent, if the sender cannot be identified, the message gives no valid address for sending a refusal, or the message does not meet Article 5, paragraph 3, points 1 to 4 of the Electronic Commerce Act or encourages recipients to visit websites that do not (Article 261, paragraph 5). |
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| Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation |
Every commercial electronic message must identify who sent it (and who it was sent on behalf of, if different), give the recipient information letting them readily contact that person, and include an unsubscribe mechanism using the same electronic means the message was sent by, or another electronic means if that is not practicable; the prescribed content and form of that information is set out in the Electronic Commerce Protection Regulations (CRTC), SOR/2012-36. A request for express consent must clearly and simply set out the purpose for which consent is sought and identify who is seeking it (and on whose behalf, if different). +1 more |
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| Electronic Communications Act (Zakon o elektroničkim komunikacijama), Article 50, Paragraphs 1 to 4, Unsolicited Electronic Communications |
Do not send promotional or sales electronic mail, SMS or MMS messages that misrepresent or conceal the sender's identity or are contrary to the rules on electronic commerce, that lack a valid address or number to which the recipient can send a request to stop further communication free of charge, or that urge recipients to visit websites contrary to the rules on electronic commerce (article 50, paragraph 3). |
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| Electronic Communications and Postal Services Regulation Law, Article 106, Unsolicited Calls, Fax and Electronic Mail for Direct Commercial Promotion |
Do not send electronic mail for direct commercial promotion that conceals the identity of the sender or of the person on whose behalf it is sent, that has no valid address to which the recipient can request that the communication stop, or that encourages recipients to visit websites that breach Article 9 of the Law on Certain Aspects of Information Society Services and Electronic Commerce (Article 106, paragraph 4). |
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| Act No. 480/2004 on Certain Information Society Services, Section 7, Commercial Communications by Electronic Means |
Do not send electronic mail that spreads a commercial communication if it is not clearly marked as a commercial communication, hides the identity of the sender on whose behalf it is sent, or is sent without a valid address to which the recipient can directly and effectively send a request to stop further commercial messages. |
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| Marketing Practices Act (Markedsføringsloven), Section 10, Paragraphs 1 to 3, Direct Marketing by Electronic Mail, Automatic Calling Systems and Fax |
In every direct-marketing electronic mail, make the marketing clearly identifiable as such, make the conditions of promotional measures easy to reach and clearly presented, show on whose behalf it is sent without concealing it, do not urge the recipient to visit websites that fail those requirements, and give an address the recipient can use to stop such contact (section 10, paragraph 3). |
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| Electronic Communications Act (Elektroonilise side seadus), Section 103^1, Use of Electronic Contact Details for Direct Marketing |
Do not use electronic contact details for direct marketing where the person on whose behalf the information is sent cannot be identified, the information lacks an instruction or information that lets the recipient exercise the right to refuse, the information does not meet section 5, paragraph 2 of the Information Society Services Act, the information urges people to visit websites that do not meet those requirements, or the user, customer or buyer has refused the use (section 103^1(4)). |
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| e-Commerce Directive |
It reaches you if you are a service provider, meaning a natural or legal person providing an information society service (Article 2, point (b)), and you send or show a commercial communication that is part of, or constitutes, that service: make the commercial communication clearly identifiable as such, and make the natural or legal person on whose behalf it is made clearly identifiable (Article 6, points (a) and (b)). |
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| ePrivacy Directive |
Never send a direct-marketing electronic mail (including a text message) that disguises or conceals the sender's identity, that itself contravenes Directive 2000/31/EC Article 6's disclosure rules, or that has no valid address the recipient can use to ask that the messages stop, and never encourage the recipient to visit a website that itself breaches those rules. |
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| Information Society Code (Laki sähköisen viestinnän palveluista), Sections 200, 202 and 203, Consent, Opt-out and Identification for Direct Marketing |
Make every e-mail, text, voice, sound or image message intended for direct marketing under sections 200 and 202 clearly and unambiguously recognizable as marketing when it is received, and do not send one that conceals the identity of the sender on whose behalf it is sent, has no valid address for a request to stop the communication, or tries to steer recipients to websites that breach Chapter 2 of the Consumer Protection Act (section 203). |
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| Code des postes et des communications électroniques Article L. 34-5, Prior Consent to Direct Marketing by Automated Systems, Fax and Email |
Do not conceal the identity of the person on whose behalf the message is sent, and do not state a subject unrelated to the service or product offered. |
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| Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz (Digital Services Act Implementation Act), Commercial Communications and Disguised Email Sender |
Make commercial communications that are digital services, or parts of digital services, clearly recognizable as such, and make the person on whose behalf they are made clearly identifiable (section 6(1) numbers 1 and 2). When you send a commercial communication by email, do not disguise or conceal the sender or the commercial character of the message in the header and subject lines: designing them deliberately so that the recipient gets no or misleading information about the sender's actual identity or the commercial character before reading the content is disguise or concealment (section 6(2)). |
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| Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb, Commercial Electronic Messages |
Never send an advertising message that disguises or conceals the sender's identity on whose behalf it is transmitted, that fails to identify the message clearly as a commercial communication with a clearly identifiable sender and clearly identifiable, easily accessible terms for any promotional offer or prize draw, or that invites the recipient to a website with the same failing. |
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| Law 3471/2006, Article 11(1), (3), (4) and (7), Unsolicited Communications for Direct Marketing |
Do not send electronic mail for direct commercial promotion that omits the clearly stated identity of the sender or of the person for whose benefit it is sent, that has no valid address at which the recipient can ask for the communication to stop, or that encourages recipients to visit websites that breach the Article. |
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| Irish ePrivacy Regulations |
In a marketing call, include your name and, if applicable, the name of the person on whose behalf you call; in an automated-calling or fax communication, include the name, address and telephone number of the sender and, if applicable, of the person on whose behalf it is sent; and in a marketing email, include a valid address at which you can be contacted. Never disguise or conceal your identity in a marketing email, never omit a valid address the recipient can use to stop future messages, and never encourage recipients to visit websites or otherwise breach Regulation 8 of the Electronic Commerce Regulations 2003, which requires a commercial communication, and the person on whose behalf it is made, to be clearly identified. |
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| Codice Privacy (Personal Data Protection Code), Article 130(1), (2) and (4) to (6), Unsolicited Communications |
Do not send such communications, or any communication for promotional purposes, while disguising or concealing the sender's identity, in breach of Article 8 of Legislative Decree 70/2003, without giving a suitable contact where the data subject can exercise the rights in Articles 15 to 22 of the GDPR, or by urging recipients to visit websites that breach that Article 8. |
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| Decreto legislativo 70/2003 (E-Commerce Decree), Articles 8, 9 and 21, Commercial Communications and Unsolicited Email |
Make every commercial communication that is an information society service, or an integral part of one, state from the first sending, clearly and unequivocally, that it is a commercial communication, the natural or legal person on whose behalf it is sent, that it is a promotional offer (a discount, prize or gift) and its conditions of access, and, for promotional contests or games where permitted, their conditions of participation. |
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| Information Society Services Law (Informācijas sabiedrības pakalpojumu likums), Articles 8 and 9, Commercial Notices and Their Sending |
Make every commercial notice clearly recognizable as one, make clear the person on whose behalf it is distributed, state the offer and the terms of receiving the service precisely, make discounts, bonuses and prizes and the terms of receiving them clear, make promotional contests, lotteries and games and their participation terms clear and easy to find, and give the recipient the chance to refuse further commercial notices (article 8, paragraph 1). |
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| Electronic Communications Law, Article 81, Direct Marketing by Electronic Communications Services |
Do not send electronic mail for direct marketing that conceals the identity of the sender on whose behalf it is sent, that gives no valid address at which the recipient can demand that sending stop, or that encourages recipients to visit websites that do not meet the requirements of the Law on Information Society Services. |
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| Law on Information Society Services, Article 9, Commercial Information |
Make it possible to identify the natural or legal person on whose behalf the commercial information is provided. |
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| Act of 30 May 2005, Article 11(1), (2) and (4) to (6), Unsolicited Communications for Direct Marketing by Electronic Mail |
Do not send electronic messages for direct marketing that disguise, conceal or misrepresent the identity of the sender on whose behalf the communication is made, or that give no valid address to which the recipient can send a request to stop such communications. |
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| Processing of Personal Data (Electronic Communications Sector) Regulations, Regulation 9, Unsolicited Communications for Direct Marketing |
Do not send direct marketing electronic mail that disguises or conceals the identity of the sender on whose behalf it is made, that contravenes regulation 6 of the Electronic Commerce (General) Regulations, that has no valid address to which the recipient may send a request that the communications cease, or that encourages recipients to visit websites that contravene that regulation (regulation 9(4)). |
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| Unsolicited Commercial E-mail Protection Act |
A commercial e-mail you intentionally send unsolicited through an e-mail service provider you knew or should have known is located in Michigan, or to an address you knew or should have known is held by a Michigan resident, must carry "ADV:" as the first four characters of the subject line, your legal name, correct street address, valid domain name and valid return e-mail address, and a toll-free number, return e-mail address or other easy electronic method the recipient can use to opt out, with a notice of it in print as large as most of the message; this labeling, identification and opt-out duty is not framed as a rule against falsity or deception. |
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| Telecommunicatiewet (Telecommunications Act), Article 11.7(1), (3) to (5) and (7), Prior Consent for Unsolicited Electronic Messages |
In every such electronic message, state the real identity of the person on whose behalf the communication is sent and a valid postal address or number to which the recipient can send a request to end such communication. The requirements of Article 15e(1)(a) to (c) of Book 3 of the Civil Code apply to those messages, and they may not encourage the recipient to consult information on the internet that breaches that article. |
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| Nevada Unsolicited Commercial Electronic Mail Liability Act |
Before sending, or causing to be sent, email that includes an advertisement, either have a preexisting business or personal relationship with the recipient, obtain the recipient's express consent, or make the advertisement identifiable as promotional and clearly give your legal name, complete street address and email address, a notice of how to decline further advertising mail, and ADV or advertisement as the first word of the subject line. |
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| Ustawa o świadczeniu usług drogą elektroniczną, Identification of Commercial Information |
Name the entity on whose behalf the commercial information is distributed and give its electronic addresses. |
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| Decreto-Lei n.º 7/2004, Articles 20 and 21, Identification of Commercial Communications Online |
In an advertising communication provided at a distance by electronic means, clearly identify, so that an average recipient grasps them easily, the advertising nature of the message as soon as it is presented on the terminal and in a conspicuous way, the advertiser, and any promotional offers such as discounts, prizes or gifts and any promotional contests or games, together with the conditions attached to them. |
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| Lei n.º 41/2004, Article 13-A, Unsolicited Communications for Direct Marketing |
Do not send electronic mail for direct marketing that conceals or disguises the identity of the person on whose behalf the communication is made, that gives no valid means of contact to which the recipient can send a request to stop, or that encourages recipients to visit websites that breach Article 21 of Decreto-Lei 7/2004. |
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| Law 506/2004 on the Processing of Personal Data and the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications (Legea nr. 506/2004), Article 12, Unsolicited Communications |
Do not send commercial communications by electronic mail that hide the real identity of the person on whose behalf they are made contrary to article 5 of Law 365/2002, that give no valid address to which the recipient can send a request to stop such communications, or that encourage recipients to visit internet pages contrary to article 5 of Law 365/2002 (article 12, paragraph 3). |
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| Electronic Communications Act, Section 116, Paragraphs 3 to 6 and 14 to 16, Consent, Withdrawal and Opt-out for Direct Marketing |
Do not send e-mail from which the identity and address of the sender, to which the recipient can send a request to end such messages, are not known, and do not encourage a visit to a website in breach of a special regulation (section 116, paragraph 15). |
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| Electronic Communications Act (ZEKom-2), Article 226, Unsolicited Communications for Direct Marketing |
Do not send direct-marketing e-mail, contrary to the law on electronic commerce, that hides or disguises the identity of the sender on whose behalf it is sent or has no valid address to which the recipient can send a request to stop such messages, and do not send direct-marketing e-mail that invites recipients to visit websites contrary to that law (article 226, paragraph 5). |
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| Ley 34/2002 de servicios de la sociedad de la información y de comercio electrónico (LSSI), Identification of Commercial Communications, Promotional Offers and Senders (Article 20) |
Make every commercial communication you send by electronic means clearly identifiable as a commercial communication, and clearly identify the natural or legal person on whose behalf you send it (Article 20(1)). Do not send commercial communications that disguise or conceal the identity of the sender on whose behalf they are sent, that contravene Article 20, or that invite recipients to visit Internet pages that contravene it (Article 20(4)). |
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| Ley Orgánica 3/2018 (LOPDGDD), Advertising Exclusion Systems (Article 23) |
When a person tells you they do not want their data processed to send them commercial communications, inform them of the existing advertising exclusion systems, which you may do by referring them to the information the competent supervisory authority publishes (Article 23(3)). |
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| PECR, Electronic Mail for Direct Marketing Purposes |
Do not disguise or conceal the identity of the person on whose behalf a marketing message is sent, and always provide a valid address the recipient can use to ask you to stop. Do not send a marketing message that breaks the Electronic Commerce (EC Directive) Regulations 2002's identification rules for commercial communications, or that encourages the recipient to visit a website that breaks them. |
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| CAN-SPAM Act |
Every commercial email must carry accurate header and routing information, a subject line that is not deceptive about the message's contents, clear and conspicuous identification that the message is an advertisement unless the recipient gave prior affirmative consent, a functioning return address or other opt-out mechanism, and a valid physical postal address of the sender. |
Sensitive categories
21 laws, 17 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Law on the Protection of Personal Data, sensitive data categories |
Post clear notice at any location with a video surveillance or electronic monitoring system that identifies people, stating that image or sound is captured and giving the controller's name, address, phone number and email. |
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| Act of 30 July 2018 Article 10/1, Recorded Commercial Communications |
Inform both parties of a call or communication recording, its precise purposes, and its storage period before recording it for proof of a commercial transaction with a person in Belgium, and erase the data once the transaction can no longer be challenged in court. |
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| Loi n°2017-20 portant Code du Numérique en République du Bénin, Livre V, données sensibles et mineurs |
Where sensitive personal data is processed solely on the data subject's written consent, tell the data subject beforehand the reasons for the processing and the categories of staff who will access the data, in addition to the standard information notice. |
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| Loi n° 24.001 portant protection des données à caractère personnel, données sensibles et mineurs |
When a processing activity involves sensitive data or a particularly vulnerable person's data, put additional organizational and technical safeguards in place and give that person heightened information before you process it. |
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| Personal Information Protection Law, Sensitive Personal Information |
Notify the individual of the necessity of the processing and its impact on their rights before collecting sensitive personal information. |
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| Ley 1581 de 2012, Sensitive Categories and Children's Data |
Do not process a child's or adolescent's personal data unless it is data of a public nature, and provide children, adolescents and their guardians with information and training on the risks of improper processing and on the safe, responsible use of their personal data. |
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| Ley para la Protección de Datos Personales, sensitive personal data and children |
Guarantee the best interests of a child or adolescent in any processing of their data, and inform both the child and their parent or guardian, in clear and age appropriate language, before exercising the child's rights. |
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| Anti-Money-Laundering Regulation, Special Categories and Criminal Offence Data Processed by Obliged Entities (Articles 76 and 77(3)) from , in 8 months |
Inform your customers or prospective customers that special categories of data may be processed for the purpose of complying with the requirements of this Regulation (Article 76(2), point (a)). |
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| Political Advertising Regulation, Targeting and Ad-Delivery Techniques (Articles 18 and 19) |
Provide, together with the indication that the advertisement is political, the additional information that lets the individual understand the logic involved and the main parameters of the techniques used, including whether an artificial intelligence system has been used to target or deliver the advertisement and any additional analytical techniques, with the elements listed in Article 19(1)(c), points (i) to (vi): the specific groups of recipients targeted and the parameters used to determine them, the categories of personal data used, the targeting goals, mechanisms and logic including the inclusion and exclusion parameters and the reasons for choosing them, meaningful information on the use of artificial intelligence systems, the period of dissemination and the number of individuals reached, and a link to or clear indication of where the policy can be retrieved (Article 19(1)(c)). Provide, together with the political advertisement unless it is included in the transparency notice required under Article 12(1), a reference to effective means to support individuals in exercising their rights under Regulations (EU) 2016/679 or (EU) 2018/1725, in particular their rights to amend personal data or withdraw consent, including a link to an interface for exercising those rights (Article 19(1)(e)). +1 more |
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| Florida Digital Bill of Rights, sensitive data and biometric data definitions |
Display the notice "NOTICE: This website may sell your sensitive personal data" and obtain consent before selling a qualifying consumer's sensitive personal data. |
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| Law No. 025/2023, sensitive categories of personal data and children's data |
Where your online service is aimed at children, build in privacy-protective technical measures such as marking and filtering, write information for them in terms they can understand, keep advertising, entertainment and games clearly distinct from content, never incite a child to buy goods or enter an online contract, and never use prizes, rewards or links to a non-compliant site to keep them engaged. |
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| Personal Data Protection and Privacy Act, 2025, sensitive personal data and children's data from a date not yet set |
Apply specific safeguards to any marketing or profiling directed at children, and put anything addressed to a child in clear, plain language they can easily understand. |
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| Health Data Use Act (GDNG) Sections 1 and 6 to 9, Secondary Use and Protection of Health Data |
Inform the public in clear and simple language of the purposes for which you further process data, and tell a data subject on request the nature, extent and purpose of the processing for research or statistics (Section 6, paragraph 4). |
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| Law 132/2025 Article 8, Health Data Processing for Research and Experimentation in Building AI Systems |
If you reuse personal data without direct identifiers for that research without further consent, still inform the data subject, which a general notice on your website can satisfy, unless knowing the data subject's identity is inevitable or necessary to protect their health (Article 8, paragraph 2). Inform the data subject under GDPR Article 13 before processing personal data to anonymize, pseudonymize or synthesize it (Article 8, paragraph 3). |
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| Ontario | Consumer Reporting Act, consumer reporting agencies and users of consumer reports |
Before you request or obtain a consumer report containing personal information about a consumer, give the consumer written notice, and give the consumer the agency's name and address on request. If you deny a benefit or increase a charge wholly or partly because of information from a consumer reporting agency or another person, give the consumer notice when you communicate the action and, if the consumer asks within sixty days, say what the information was and where it came from or give the agency's name and address. |
| Ontario | Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004, custodian and agent duties: consent, safeguards, information practices and marketing |
Have information practices that comply with the Act, follow them, designate a contact person if you are not a natural person, and make available to the public a written statement describing your information practices, how to contact you, how to seek access or correction and how to complain. |
| Ontario | Personal Health Information Protection Act, 2004, electronic service providers and health information network providers |
As a health information network provider, give each custodian a plain language description of your services that is suitable for sharing with patients, including the safeguards in place, and make that description and your applicable directives, guidelines and policies available to the public, other than a trade secret or confidential scientific, technical, commercial or labour relations information. |
| Fair Credit Reporting Act, consumer reporting agency, user and furnisher duties |
If you use or obtain a consumer report, do so only for a purpose section 1681b authorizes and certify that purpose; before procuring a report for employment purposes, make a clear and conspicuous written disclosure in a document that consists solely of the disclosure and get the consumer's written authorization, unless the transportation-applicant procedure in section 1681b(b)(2)(B) applies. If you use a consumer report for employment purposes and intend to take adverse action based on it, first give the consumer a copy of the report and a written description of the consumer's rights under the Act, unless the transportation-applicant procedure in section 1681b(b)(3)(B) applies. +1 more |
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| Genetic Information Privacy Act |
Obtain a Utah consumer's initial express consent before collecting, using, or disclosing their genetic data through a direct-to-consumer genetic testing product or service, and give them a public privacy notice describing your data practices. |
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| Utah Consumer Privacy Act, sensitive data categories and biometric data definition |
Give Utah consumers clear notice and an opportunity to opt out before processing their sensitive data, including biometric data such as a voiceprint, retina scan, iris scan, or fingerprint collected for the purpose of identifying a specific individual. |
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| Data Protection and Privacy Act 2024, special categories and children's personal data |
Before processing a child's personal data, obtain the consent of a parent, carer or legal guardian, communicate with the child in clear and plain language, and put appropriate age-verification mechanisms in place, unless the processing is in the child's legitimate interests or is necessary for preventive or counselling services offered directly to the child. |
Interception and recording consent
16 laws, 14 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979, Prohibition on Interception and Civil Remedies |
Interception means listening to or recording the communication, by any means, in its passage over the system, without the knowledge of the person making it; give the person making the communication that knowledge, such as an advance recorded notice that the call may be recorded, before or as the recording starts, and the recording is not an interception under this Act. |
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| Act of 30 July 2018, Article 10/1, Recording of Electronic Communications in Lawful Commercial Transactions |
Before you record an electronic communication and its traffic data as proof of a lawful commercial transaction or another professional communication, inform the parties to the communication of the recording, its precise purposes and the storage period. If you listen to or record communications and traffic data solely to monitor the quality of service in a call center, inform the people who work there beforehand of the possibility of listening and recording, the precise purpose and the retention period, and keep the data for one month at most. |
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| Electronic Communications Act, Articles 246 and 247, Confidentiality of Communications and Recording |
You may record messages and their traffic data without that consent only where the recording is necessary and provided for by law to prove the conclusion of commercial transactions, and the sender and recipient have been told in advance of the recording, its purposes and retention period and of their right to refuse it (Article 247, paragraph 1). |
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| Connecticut Action for Illegal Recording of Private Telephonic Communications |
Before using an instrument, device or equipment to record an oral private telephonic communication, either obtain the consent of all parties to it in writing or as part of, and at the start of, the recording, or give verbal notification recorded at the beginning and made part of the communication, or use an automatic tone-warning device that produces a distinct signal repeated at approximately fifteen-second intervals throughout the call. |
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| Labour Code (Act No. 262/2006), Section 316(2) and (3), Monitoring of Employees' Calls and Electronic Mail |
Where such a serious reason justifies those control mechanisms, inform the employee directly about the scope of the control and the ways it is carried out. |
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| Consumer Rights Directive |
It reaches you if you are a trader in a distance contract with a consumer for the supply of financial services (Article 3(1b) of Directive 2011/83/EU) and you communicate with the consumer by voice telephony: when a call is being recorded, or might be recorded, notify the consumer that this is the case (Article 16a(3), second sentence). |
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| MiFID II |
Notify new and existing clients that telephone communications or conversations between you and your clients that result or may result in transactions will be recorded. The notification may be made once, before you provide investment services to the client (Article 16(7)). Before you provide services relating to the reception, transmission and execution of orders to a new or existing client, inform the client that conversations and communications are being recorded and that a copy of the recording will be available on request for five years and, where the competent authority requests, for up to seven years, in the same language or languages as you use to provide investment services to clients (Article 76(8)). +1 more |
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| Temporary Derogation for Detecting Online Child Sexual Abuse in Messaging Services |
Establish procedures and redress mechanisms that let users lodge complaints with you within a reasonable timeframe to present their views (Article 3(1), point (g)(iv)). Inform users in a clear, prominent and comprehensible way that you have invoked the derogation from Article 5(1) and Article 6(1) of Directive 2002/58/EC solely for these purposes, of the logic behind the measures you have taken and of the impact on the confidentiality of users' communications, including the possibility that personal data are shared with law enforcement authorities and organizations acting in the public interest against child sexual abuse (Article 3(1), point (g)(v)). Where a user's content has been removed, an account blocked or a service suspended, inform the user of the avenues for seeking redress from you, the possibility of lodging a complaint with a supervisory authority and the right to a judicial remedy (Article 3(1), point (g)(vi)). By and by 31 January every year thereafter, publish and submit to the competent supervisory authority and to the Commission a report on the processing of personal data under the Regulation, with the content Article 3(1), point (g)(vii), lists, provided in writing by means of the standard form the Commission determines by implementing act (the closing subparagraph of Article 3). |
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| Act XXV of 2023 on Complaints, Public-Interest Reports and the Rules on Reporting Abuses, Section 21, Recording of Oral Reports |
If your internal reporting system uses a recorded telephone line or other recorded voice messaging system that needs the reporter's consent, either record the oral report in a durable and retrievable form after giving the data protection information, or put it in writing and give the reporter a copy with a chance to check, correct and sign it (section 21, paragraph 2). If the reporter reports in person, either record the oral report in a durable and retrievable form after giving the data protection information, or put it in writing and give the reporter a copy with a chance to check, correct and sign it (section 21, paragraph 4). |
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| Illinois Eavesdropping Article, Interception and Civil Remedies (720 ILCS 5/14-2 as rewritten by Public Act 98-1142) |
If your business monitors or records employees' marketing, opinion research or telephone solicitation calls (including order-taking, customer assistance and credit collection calls) under the one-party exemption, use it only for service quality control, training or internal research, never furnish or divulge the recordings to law enforcement or any third party, stop and destroy any recording of an unrelated call, give employees notice including prominent workplace signage, and provide personal-only lines that are not monitored. |
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| Electronic Communications Law, Article 73(1) to (3), Confidentiality of Communications and Recording in Business Practice |
Before you record information and related traffic data in lawful business practice to provide evidence of a commercial or other business transaction that may have legal consequences, inform the users of the recording and its purpose, and keep the recorded content and traffic data no longer than the period during which the transaction can be legally challenged. |
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| Act of 30 May 2005, Article 4(1) to (3), Confidentiality of Communications and Recording in Professional Practice |
If you record communications and the related traffic data in lawful professional practice to provide proof of a commercial transaction or other commercial communication, inform the parties beforehand that recordings may be made, why, and for how long they will be kept at most, and delete the recordings as soon as the purpose is achieved and in any event when the legal period for challenging the transaction expires. |
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| Privacy in Communications, Recording and Interception of Conversations |
Do not record a conversation with a hidden electronic or mechanical device without the knowledge of all parties; a warning of the recording given by any one person is enough, and once it is given either party may record. Do not purposely intercept an electronic communication, including a chat or other data sent by wire or radio, unless the persons involved were warned of the interception. |
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| Oregon Obtaining and Interception of Communications Statute |
Do not obtain any part of an in-person conversation or a conversation occurring through a video conferencing program by means of a recording device unless every participant is specifically informed that the conversation is being obtained, whether or not you are yourself a participant. |
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| Electronic Communications Act (ZEKom-2), Article 214, Confidentiality of Communications and Recording |
You may record communications and the related traffic data in the course of lawful business practice to provide evidence of a market transaction or other business communication only if the parties are told in advance about the recording, its purpose and how long the recording is kept (article 214, paragraph 7). Give the notice of recording by the same type of medium and in the same form as the recorded communication (article 214, paragraph 8). +1 more |
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| Investigatory Powers Act 2016, Unlawful Interception and Lawful Business Monitoring |
If you are a business, a government department, a public authority, or another body exercising a statutory function, you may record or monitor communications on your own telecommunication system for a listed legitimate purpose, such as establishing facts, checking compliance with regulatory standards, or securing the system's own effective operation, if you have made all reasonable efforts to tell every person who may use the system that their communications on it may be intercepted. |
Biometric privacy
7 laws, 6 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| HB 24-1130, Privacy of Biometric Identifiers and Data |
Before collecting a Colorado resident's biometric identifier such as a fingerprint, voiceprint, or facial geometry template, disclose in a clear and accessible manner what is collected, why, and how long it will be kept, and obtain the consumer's consent, whatever your app's overall personal-data processing volume. |
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| Biometric Information Privacy Act (BIPA) |
Obtain a written release, including informed consent or an accepted electronic signature, before collecting or capturing any retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or scan of hand or face geometry, after disclosing in writing the specific purpose and length of time the data will be collected, stored, and used. |
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| Act on the Protection of Personal Information, individual identification code and biometric provisions |
An app that derives a faceprint, voiceprint, or other individual identification code from a person in Japan, including one derived from a photo, video, or audio recording, must give purpose-of-use notice and avoid wrongful acquisition under APPI's general rules, and must obtain the data subject's consent before disclosing the identifier to a third party. |
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| Act on the Protection of Personal Information, Specific Biometric Personal Information from a date not yet set |
An app that handles a data subject's Specific Biometric Personal Information, an individual identification code converted from a bodily feature obtainable without special technology or great expense and of a kind the data subject cannot easily recognize is being captured, must, except in specified cases, notify the data subject in advance or place the purpose of use where the data subject can readily learn it; may not provide it to a third party under the ordinary opt-out mechanism; and must, on the data subject's request, cease using it or stop providing it to a third party without delay, unless a specified exception applies. |
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| Law No. 06/L-082 on Protection of Personal Data, use of biometric characteristics |
In the private sector, apply the same necessity test, inform employees in writing in advance of the measures and their rights, and submit a detailed description of the proposed measures to the Agency for Information and Privacy before taking them. |
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| New York City | Biometric Identifier Information Law |
A commercial establishment operating in New York City that collects, retains, converts, stores, or shares a customer's biometric identifier information must post a clear and conspicuous sign at every customer entrance disclosing that practice, and must never sell, lease, trade, or otherwise profit from transacting in biometric identifier information regardless of signage. |
| Capture or Use of Biometric Identifier Act (CUBI), as amended by HB 149 |
Inform an individual and obtain consent before capturing their retina or iris scan, fingerprint, voiceprint, or record of hand or face geometry for a commercial purpose in Texas. |
Device storage and tracking consent
7 laws, 7 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| TKG 2021 |
Inform the user which personal data you will process, on what legal basis, for what purposes and for how long the data are stored, in a suitable form, in particular in your general terms and conditions, and at the latest at the start of the legal relationship. |
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| Act of 30 July 2018, Article 10/2, Consent for Storing or Reading Information on Terminal Equipment |
Before you store information on a user's device, or read information already stored there, give the user clear and precise information about the purposes of the processing and their rights under the GDPR and the Act of . |
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| Electronic Commerce Act, Article 4а, Storing Information on, and Accessing Information in, a User's Terminal Device |
Before you store information in a user's terminal device, or read information already stored there, give the user the clear and comprehensive information that Article 13 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 requires and give the user the opportunity to refuse the storage or access (Article 4а, paragraph 1). |
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| Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation |
If the program collects personal information stored on the system, interferes with the owner's or user's control of the system, changes or interferes with settings or data without their knowledge, causes the system to communicate with another device without authorization, or can be activated by a third party without the owner's or user's knowledge, describe those material elements and their impact clearly, prominently and separately from the licence agreement when requesting consent, and obtain a written acknowledgement that the person understands and agrees. |
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| Cookie Order (Cookiebekendtgørelsen), Sections 3 and 4, Information and Consent for Storing or Accessing Information in Terminal Equipment |
Make the information clear, precise and easy to understand, state the purpose, identify every person arranging the storage or access, give immediate access to refuse or withdraw consent with clear guidance on using it, and make the information immediately accessible (section 3, paragraph 2). Where the storage or access happens through an information and content service, keep the information permanently available through a direct and clearly marked access on that service (section 3, paragraph 2). |
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| Loi Informatique et Libertés Article 82, Consent before Storing or Reading Information on a User's Terminal Equipment |
Before storing information on a user's device, or reading information already stored there, tell the subscriber or user clearly and completely the purpose of the action and the means to object, unless they have already been informed. |
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| Law 506/2004 on the Processing of Personal Data and the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications (Legea nr. 506/2004), Article 4, Paragraphs 5 to 6, Consent for Storing or Accessing Information in Terminal Equipment |
Where you let third parties store or access information in the terminal equipment, include in that information the third parties' general purpose of processing and how the subscriber or user can use browser settings or similar technologies to delete stored information or refuse third-party access (article 4, paragraph 5). |
AI sector rules
6 laws, 6 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| HB 26-1195 (2026), Psychotherapy Artificial Intelligence Restrictions |
If a client's therapeutic session will be recorded or transcribed through an AI system, disclose the use and its purposes in advance and obtain the client's written, informed consent |
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| Consumer Credit Act, Articles 24 and 30, Personalised Offers and Creditworthiness Assessment by Automated Processing from , in 6 days |
If you offer a consumer a personalised offer based on automated processing of personal data, tell the consumer so clearly and comprehensibly, in addition to your duties under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (Article 24). If you are a creditor and your creditworthiness assessment involves automated processing of personal data, tell the consumer so in writing, and tell the consumer of the right to a human assessment (Article 30(1)). +1 more |
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| Wellness and Oversight for Psychological Resources Act |
Give written notice and obtain the patient's consent before using artificial intelligence to record or transcribe a therapy session. |
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| FSC Fintech Series Guidance Notes 4, responsible use of artificial intelligence in financial services |
It reaches you if you are licensed by the Financial Services Commission of Mauritius as an insurer, a wealth manager or another non-bank financial institution (NBFI): the Commission says that, in accordance with section 38 of the Data Protection Act 2017, you are required to ensure that data subjects are informed that automated decision-making processes exist, that meaningful information is provided on their logic, criteria and significance, and that individuals can obtain human intervention, express their views and contest the outcome. |
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| Labour Code as Amended by Law 13/2023, Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence in Employment: Articles 106(3)(s), 24(3) and 3(3)(o) |
If you are an employer, give the worker the parameters, criteria, rules and instructions on which algorithms or other artificial intelligence systems are based that affect decisions on access to and retention of employment and working conditions, including profiling and monitoring of professional activity (Article 106(3), point s)). |
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| Consumer Credit Act (2026:1011), Chapter 2 Section 7 and Chapter 3 Section 15, Personalised Offers and Credit Assessment by Automated Processing from , in 6 days |
If you offer a consumer a personalised offer of credit that rests entirely on automated processing of personal data, tell the consumer so clearly and comprehensibly (Chapter 2, section 7). If your credit assessment involves automated processing of personal data, on the consumer's request review the assessment through human involvement, explain it and the significance of the automated processing for the decision on the application, and inform the consumer of the risks of automated processing (Chapter 3, section 15, first paragraph). |
Cross border transfer
6 laws, 6 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| LQPD, transfers of personal data to third countries or international organisations |
Where no adequacy finding or appropriate safeguard applies, transfer personal data only under an Article 45(1) derogation, such as the data subject's informed explicit consent or contractual necessity, or, failing that, only under Article 45(2)'s narrow compelling-legitimate-interest exception, informing the Agency and the data subject. |
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| LGPD, international transfer of data |
Get the data subject's specific, highlighted consent before an international transfer that does not rest on an adequacy finding or another article 33 safeguard, telling them in advance that the operation is international. |
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| Personal Information Protection Law, Cross-Border Transfer |
Give advance notice disclosing the overseas recipient's identity and contact details, and obtain the individual's separate consent, before transferring their personal information abroad. |
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| Resolución 58/2022 (MINCOM), security and localization rules for personal data in electronic form |
Let a telecommunications, application, or internet-service user access, update, and cancel their personal data on request, and disclose the purpose of data collection, privacy configuration options, and any tracking elements such as cookies. |
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| Ley Federal de Protección de Datos Personales en Posesión de los Particulares, transfer of personal data |
Before transferring personal data to a national or foreign third party, other than a persona encargada, communicate the privacy notice and the purposes of the processing to the recipient, and state in the notice whether the data subject accepts the transfer. |
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| Data Protection Act, 2011, cross border disclosure of personal information |
Once Part III is in force, before a public body discloses personal information to a party in another jurisdiction, tell the individual the purpose of the disclosure and the identity of the requester and the receiving jurisdiction's data protection body, and obtain the individual's consent. |
AI transparency
4 laws, 3 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| AI Act, Article 50 (transparency obligations for AI systems and synthetic content) |
If you are a deployer of an emotion recognition system or a biometric categorisation system, inform the natural persons exposed to it of the operation of the system, and process their personal data in accordance with Regulations (EU) 2016/679 and (EU) 2018/1725 and Directive (EU) 2016/680, as applicable (Article 50(3)). This does not apply to an AI system used for biometric categorisation and emotion recognition that is permitted by law to detect, prevent or investigate criminal offenses, subject to appropriate safeguards for the rights and freedoms of third parties and in accordance with Union law. |
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| European Commission Guidelines on the implementation of the transparency obligations for certain AI systems under Article 50 of the AI Act from a date not yet set |
If you are a deployer of a biometric categorisation system or an emotion recognition system, inform every natural person exposed to its operation, including children, that the system is operating, whether they are exposed in real time or the system is operated ex post (paragraphs 100 and 106). The guidelines say Article 50(3) applies to any biometric categorisation system, such as age or gender classification based on biometric data, unless it is prohibited under Article 5(1)(g), whether or not it is high-risk, and that the notice need not give the reasons for the operation of the system or any other purpose of processing, which Union data protection law may require separately (paragraphs 104 and 105). |
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| Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act |
Explain, before the interview, how the artificial intelligence works and what general types of characteristics it uses to evaluate applicants, and obtain the applicant's consent. |
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| Digital Code, Chapter 23: AI interaction and deepfake disclosure duties |
An app that uses an AI system to recognize a person's emotions or to classify a person by biometric characteristics must inform that person the system is being applied to them. |
Enforcement supervision
3 laws, 3 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Digital Code, Data Protection Authority and sanctions |
As joint controllers, allocate your respective duties by transparent agreement, including how you will handle a data subject's rights, and make the essence of that agreement available to the data subject. |
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| Ley para la Protección de Datos Personales, enforcement and sanctions |
Carry the burden of proving that you obtained consent or delivered the privacy notice, and, for an international transfer, that the transfer was lawful. |
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| FTC Act Section 5, Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices (privacy and data-security enforcement) |
Assess foreseeable privacy harms before deploying a system that collects or uses biometric identifiers derived from photographs, videos, or voice recordings, and disclose material facts about that collection. |
Age-appropriate design code
2 laws, 2 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| AB 2246 (2026), Online Services, Products, or Features Likely to be Accessed by Children from , in 7 weeks |
Provide privacy information, terms of service, policies, and community standards concisely, prominently, and in clear language suited to the age of children likely to access the service. |
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| Federal Decree by Law Regarding Child Digital Safety, platform duties |
Do not collect, process, publish or share the personal data of a child under 13 unless you obtain explicit, documented, verifiable parental consent, provide a rapid way to withdraw it, disclose your data-privacy policy and restrict access to authorised personnel. |
Social media and minors
2 laws, 2 jurisdictions| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Act 952 of 2025 (HB1717), Arkansas Children and Teens' Online Privacy Protection Act |
Provide clear and conspicuous notice of what information you collect from children or teens, the purpose of processing it, your disclosure practices, the rights available to the parent of a child or to a teen, and the categories of data and of third parties you share it with. |
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| Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) |
Provide notice before collecting a child's personal information. |
Adult content age verification (AV)
1 law, 1 jurisdiction| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| HB 805, Prevent Sexual Exploitation of Women and Minors Act |
Display removal instructions. |
Security baseline statutes
1 law, 1 jurisdiction| Jurisdiction | Law | What it asks, as read here |
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| Ley Federal de Protección al Consumidor, Electronic Transaction Security Duty (Arts. 76 Bis, 76 Bis 1) |
Use an available technical security element to give security and confidentiality to that consumer information, and tell the consumer, before the transaction closes, the general characteristics of that element. |
Full text of the NIST Privacy Framework, public domain (a US government work). Every control of the framework.