Washington State ‘People’s Privacy Act’ Bill Ups The Ante For Privacy Compliance

“Under no circumstances shall an individual’s interaction with a covered entity’s product or service when the covered entity has a terms of service or a privacy policy, including the short-form privacy notice, in and of itself constitute freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous consent” (Section 5(2)(e)).

This statement is not taken from an European Data Protection Board guideline or an enforcement action by the French data protection authority CNIL, but rather from the People’s Privacy Act (HB1433), a competing bill to the thrice-revived Washington Privacy Act, submitted by Washington State Rep. Shelley Kloba.

Read more at JDSupra.com.