Lexology September 14, 2023
In Brief
On September 11, 2023, Delaware Governor John Carney signed the Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (HB 154) into law, making Delaware the twelfth US state to pass a consumer privacy law (and the seventh in 2023 alone). Like Connecticut, Colorado and Indiana, Delaware’s new law occupies a middle ground between detailed privacy regimes like the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA, as modified by the California Privacy Rights Act) and more business-friendly mandates like those in Iowa or Utah. While the new Delaware law eschews the CCPA’s broad application and its prescriptive disclosure requirements, it also features more extensive consumer rights than the Iowa and Utah laws.
The Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act will become effective on January 1,...