On September 11, 2023, Delaware became the 13th state to enact a comprehensive consumer data privacy law, with an effective date of January 1, 2025.The Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act (DPDPA) is, like all legislation, freely available to read online. But it’s not an easy read. Academic explainers have fewer numbered sections but are dense and complicated.Simply put, under the new law, businesses are required to be transparent about their personal data practices and obtain consent from Delaware residents before they collect and use sensitive personal data.By and large, people in the US want data privacy, with 72% of US adults supporting more regulation on how consumer data is collected and used, according to Pew Research. And yet the same percentage, 72%, said they don’t fully understand data privacy laws.In an effort to make the DPDPA easier to understand, the State of Delaware and Attorney General Kathy Jennings launched a Delaware Personal Privacy Portal this week to help residents learn how the law will impact them as consumers, parents or business owners.As a Delaware resident and consumer who has questions about DPDPA myself, I decided to explore the portal.A walkthrough of the data privacy portalsThe layout is extremely straightforward. From the main portal, you can go to an area specifically for consumers, one for parents and one for business owners.I started with the consumer portal. I don’t know what I expected, maybe a direct way to opt out of sharing my personal data, like the National Do Not Call Registry for telemarketing calls

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