Utah Privacy Bill Lacking Right to Sue May Pave GOP States’ Way

A consumer privacy law on the cusp of enactment in Utah may pave the way for other Republican-controlled states looking to pass similar legislation.

The Utah Consumer Privacy Act is the first comprehensive consumer privacy bill in the U.S. to pass both chambers of a Republican-controlled state. It would give residents the right to know what personal data is being collected and ask it be deleted.

The bill is similar to legislation enacted in then Democratic-controlled Virginia last year, with wide carve-outs for financial and health data and no requirement that companies conduct data protection assessments related to the processing ...