Washington State Takes Another Run at Online Privacy Rules

Washington state lawmakers are once again looking to pass a set of data privacy regulations that will grant consumers the right to access, transfer, correct and delete data that companies hold on them.

Known as the Washington Privacy Act, Senate Bill 5062 was initially proposed by Sen. Reuven Carlyle, D-Seattle, in 2019. It aims to create an awareness of how citizen data is being used and what personal rights surround the data being held in company databases.

Read more at Government Technology.