The Anatomy of a Data Privacy Law: Demystifying Privacy

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Even worse — there are dozens of other privacy laws with different requirements and technicalities, but equal complexity. And if you don’t understand the ins and outs of these different regulations, you could find yourself facing million-dollar fines.<br><br>Nobody should have to read the full texts of multiple data privacy laws just to figure out how to become compliant. To help businesses get to compliance more quickly, we took a look at the main characteristics common to most data privacy laws.</p>  <h2>A Data Privacy Primer: The GDPR’s Principles</h2> <p>Before we dive into the actual components you’ll come across in a data privacy law, it’s important to understand the basic tenets that underlie modern data privacy laws. <br><br>As the first law of its kind, the GDPR has become a model for other data privacy laws. It lays out seven principles that describe the intention behind the GDPR’s specific guidance. As <a href="https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/principles/" rel="noopener" target="_blank">stated</a> by the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the principles “don’t give hard and fast rules, but rather embody the spirit of the general data protection regime.” <br><br>If you internalize these principles, you’ll also have internalized the intention behind most modern data privacy laws.</p> <ol> <li><strong>Lawfulness, fairness, and transparency</strong>: Whenever a business processes a consumer’s personal data, it needs to be done in a transparent, fair, and lawful manner.</li> <li><strong>Purpose limitation</strong>: Businesses need to collect data for a specific purpose, and once they’ve accomplished that purpose, they can’t hang onto a consumer’s data for later use.</li> <li><strong>Data minimization</strong>: Businesses should only collect the data that they need to accomplish a specific purpose and no more.</li> <li><strong>Accuracy</strong>: If a business collects personal data, it needs to be accurate and up to date; otherwise, it should be deleted or updated.</li> <li><strong>Storage limitation</strong>: Personal data should be stored in a way such that it’s not possible to identify the associated consumer after a business achieves its intended purpose.</li> <li><strong>Integrity and confidentiality (security)</strong>: Businesses need to take reasonable security measures to protect consumers’ personal data.</li> <li><strong>Accountability</strong>: Businesses are responsible for adhering to these principles and can be held accountable if they do not.</li> </ol> <h2>9 Key Components You’ll Find in Data Privacy Laws</h2> <p>Now that you’re familiar with the basic principles underlying most data privacy laws, let’s jump into the specific components you’ll come across in different laws.</p> <h3>1. Which organizations are subject to the law, and which are exempt?</h3> <p>It isn’t a matter of whether your headquarters is based out of a region with a data privacy law or not — you might still be subject to one. These laws have specific criteria that govern which organizations are subject or exempt to their regulations. <br><br>Generally, this will depend on:</p> <ul> <li>The nature of your organization</li> <li>The number of state residents or citizens that you collect data on</li> <li>Whether you earn revenue from selling personal data</li> </ul> <p>For example, Utah’s UCPA applies to businesses that earn over $25 million in revenue per year and conduct business in Utah or provide products or services targeted to Utah residents. In addition, businesses must meet one of the following additional threshold criteria before they are subject to the UCPA:</p> <ul> <li>They control or process the personal data of 100,000 or more Utah consumers annually.</li> <li>Fifty percent of their gross revenue comes from the sale of personal data, and they control or process the personal data of 25,000 or more Utah consumers.</li> </ul> <p>The exact figures differ from law to law, but most follow a similar pattern.</p> <h3>2. Who is protected by the law?</h3> <p>Data privacy laws will clearly define who and what they protect. Typically, laws will refer to a “consumer,” “resident,” or a “data subject.” For the most part, these definitions will be fairly intuitive: data privacy laws are meant to protect the real people who reside within a certain region, so that’s who “consumer” or “data subject” refers to. To be safe, however, it’s always best to look up the section of the law that defines the different terms it uses — every law will have a section dedicated to definitions.</p> <h3>3. What constitutes personal information?</h3> <p>Most data privacy laws will refer to “personal information” when discussing how businesses need to treat consumers’ data. However, the meaning of “personal information” can vary from law to law. Generally, personal information is data that can be used to identify or can be reasonably associated with a consumer.<br><br>Obviously, this would include information like a person’s name and address. But different laws can also include other information you might not have considered under the definition of personal information. For a particularly weird example, the CPRA <a href="https://cpra.gtlaw.com/definitions/#:~:text=Audio%2C%20electronic%2C%20visual%2C%20thermal%2C%20olfactory%2C%20or%20similar%20information" rel="noopener" target="_blank">includes</a> “olfactory,” information in its definition of personal information — so if you wanted to keep a database on how your consumers smell, forget about it.<br><br>Notably, there are exceptions to what constitutes personal information as well. Generally, data privacy laws will exempt aggregated data or de-identified data. Aggregated data refers to data from groups of people that lack any personally identifiable information, like website visits, bounce rates, and the like. De-identified data is similar, but refers to data for which all personally identifiable information has been removed.</p> <h3>4. What constitutes sensitive information?</h3> <p>Some data privacy laws include an additional category of personal information: sensitive personal information. This includes information like social security numbers, consumers’ precise location, genetic data, and more.<br><br>Data that falls under this category requires special treatment from businesses, such as requiring explicit opt-in consent prior to processing, special disclosures and notices, permitting consumers to ask that businesses limit the use of their sensitive information, and so on.</p> <h3>5. What kind of consent do you need?</h3> <p>Every data privacy law requires you to have a consumers’ consent before collecting and processing their personal information. But the laws differ in how they define consent and what getting consent looks like.<br><br>Broadly, there are two kinds of consent: <a href="/articles/consent-management-101-everything-you-need-to-know" rel="noopener" target="_blank">opt-in and opt-out</a>.<br><br>Laws like the GDPR require that consumers opt-in to data collection. So, when a consumer visits an EU website for the first time, that business might ask for their consent in a <a href="/articles/cookies-proof-of-consent-records-of-consent" rel="noopener" target="_blank">cookie banner</a>. If the consumer doesn’t click “Accept,” then the business can’t drop cookies on the consumers’ browser and, as a result, can’t track their behavior.<br><br>Other laws require opt-out consent. Businesses under an opt-out law might present a banner with no accept or reject button whatsoever and notify the consumer that by continuing to use the website, they are consenting to cookies.<br><br>If your business has a website, and you want to make it compliant with data privacy laws, then identifying whether you need opt-in or opt-out consent is probably the first thing you should look for. Enforcement agencies tend to look at cookies first since they are a clear and simple way to determine whether a business is in compliance or not.</p> <h3>6. What rights do consumers have?</h3> <p>Data privacy laws also list out the specific rights that consumers have in regards to their data. This typically includes consumers’ right to know certain things, such as the right to know whether their personal data is being shared or sold and with whom, as well as consumers’ access rights.<br><br>Access rights, also known as <a href="/articles/data-subject-access-requests-guide" rel="noopener" target="_blank">data subject access rights (DSARs)</a>, give consumers the right to make certain requests of businesses. This can include accessing their personal information that the business has collected, requesting that their data be deleted or amended, that businesses stop collecting their data, and more.</p> <h3>7. How are data transfers handled?</h3> <p>If your business collects personal information from consumers, then you probably share or sell that data with third parties. They could be software vendors, international partners, client organizations, and other groups.<br><br>Data privacy laws generally say that if you provide consumer data to a third party, then you’re still liable for what that third party does with the consumer data. It doesn’t matter if you do everything right; if the third party mishandles the consumer data, you’ll be the one on the hook.<br><br>Many data privacy regulations provide recommendations for how businesses should handle data transfers, such as by putting certain contractual agreements in place. There is also guidance on how to handle international transfers since you might transfer data from a region with one data privacy law to a region with another law or no privacy law whatsoever. The GDPR, in particular, is known for having strict requirements for international data transfers.</p> <h3>8. What are the penalties associated with breaking the law?</h3> <p>Being respectful of your consumers’ data privacy rights isn’t just the ethical and compliant thing to do; it’s also a cost-saver. Data privacy laws list out the fines and penalties businesses can expect to incur if they are noncompliant. GDPR noncompliance, for instance, can result in fines as high as 20 million euros or up to 4% of turnover, whichever is higher.</p> <h3>9. Who enforces the law?</h3> <p>This may or may not be described in the actual text of the law itself, but it’s essential for businesses to be aware of which authorities are enforcing the law. In the EU, each country has its own data protection authority that handles enforcement in that country; California has the <a href="/articles/california-privacy-protection-agency" rel="noopener" target="_blank">CPPA</a>; and many other states rely on the Attorney General for enforcement. <br><br>Notably, some data privacy laws also allow for what’s called a “private right of action.” That means individual citizens can sue organizations if they break the law. Typically, this right is limited to specific sorts of noncompliance, such as if certain information is exposed in a data breach as a result of a business's noncompliance.</p> <h2>The Next Step Toward Compliance</h2> <p>If you can identify the guidance for these key components in your relevant data privacy law, you’ll have an excellent foundation for becoming compliant. But that’s just the start.<br><br>The actual work of implementing a data privacy program can be just as complex as interpreting a data privacy law. Fortunately, we’ve recorded a webinar that covers <a href="/webinar/how-to-build-a-privacy-program" rel="noopener" target="_blank">how to build a privacy program</a>, even if data privacy compliance is still relatively new for you and your organization.<br><br>Some more good news: Even if you don’t fully have your head wrapped around data privacy yet, there are solutions that can handle the minutiae for you. If you don’t know how your organization is going to go about getting cookie consent, vetting third-party vendors for their data privacy practices, or managing DSARs, tracking down a compliance platform that works for your organization will be time well spent.<br><br>As a first step in your compliance journey, <a href="/request/demo" rel="noopener" target="_blank">schedule a demo of Osano</a>. We keep over 750,000 websites compliant with 50+ data privacy laws. 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