People’s Privacy Act Introduced In Washington State House Of Representatives

On January 28, 2021, Washington state Representative Shelley Kloba filed HB 1433, entitled the People’s Privacy Act (WPPA). According to the Washington legislative website, the WPPA will be formally introduced on February 1, 2020.

The WPPA, which is supported by the Washington ACLU, is a competing bill to the Washington Privacy Act (WPA) introduced by Senator Carlyle in the Washington Senate. Although the WPPA and WPA are intended to address the same issue (consumer privacy) they come about it in very different ways.

Read more at JDSupra.com.