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In ongoing tweaks to state privacy laws, Oregon has amended its state privacy law to cover auto manufacturers. Specifically, those that process or control personal information that they get from a person’s use of a car... ...more
Oregon Governor Tina Kotek just signed two bills into law that will soon change employer obligations regarding applicants and new hires. When these new laws take effect, you’ll need to rethink how you collect applicant data...more
On June 2, Gov. Tina Kotek signed HB 2008 amending the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (the Act) to increase protection both for personal data collected from consumers younger than 16 years of age and for all Oregonians' precise...more
Keypoint: Last week, governors in Colorado, Oregon, Nebraska, and Texas signed bills into law while bills advanced in Maine, Oregon, Vermont, and Texas. Below is the twenty first weekly update on the status of proposed state...more
The Oregon Legislature recently enacted House Bill 3875, amending the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA) effective September 28. 2025, to broaden its scope to include motor vehicle manufacturers and their affiliates that...more
Keypoint: Last week, Oregon’s legislature passed a bill to amend the state’s consumer data privacy law, the Connecticut Senate passed two bills, and there were developments with bills in New Jersey, Nebraska, Texas,...more
Oregon consumers submitted more than 100 privacy complaints to the state’s justice department within six months of the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA) taking effect, and businesses subject to the new law need to take note....more
Both Texas and Oregon recently adopted rules that will, among other things, implement a registry required by both states’ data broker laws. The Texas law went into effect September 1, 2023, and the Oregon law will go into...more
California recently passed a groundbreaking new law aimed at further regulating the data broker industry. California is already one of only three states (along with Oregon and Vermont) that require data brokers—businesses...more
Oregon recently joined Vermont and California as the third state requiring data broker registration before collecting, selling, or licensing “brokered personal data.” Several types of entities are exempt from the law. These...more
Governor Tina Kotek signed the Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA or the Act) into law on July 18, 2023. The OCPA goes into effect on July 1, 2024. Oregon follows 11 other states that have enacted consumer privacy protections,...more
Oregon becomes the 12th state with a comprehensive consumer data privacy law - The Oregon Consumer Privacy Act (OCPA) became law on July 18, 2023. Oregon is the twelfth state to enact a comprehensive consumer data privacy...more
Earlier this month, the Oregon state legislature introduced Senate Bill (SB) 619, “relating to protections for the personal data of consumers.” The bill has since been referred to the Senate Committee on Judiciary and the...more