Delaware’s comprehensive privacy law is set to take effect, granting residents new rights over their personal information, including the ability to access, correct, delete, and obtain copies of data collected about them. The law also allows consumers to opt out of…
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Delaware Adds to Growing Patchwork of Social Media Laws
On August 7, Delaware Governor Jack Markell signed a law to prohibit employers from interfering with the personal social media accounts of their prospective and current employees. The new law defines “personal social media” to encompass any account on a social…
Destroy Securely: Delaware Adopts New Data Destruction Law
Delaware recently adopted a new law that will add requirements related to the destruction of records containing “personal identifying information.” With that law, Delaware joined a number of other states that place restrictions on the ways in which…
‘Ban The Box’ on Its Way To Delaware Governors Desk
‘Ban the Box,’ the name of a measure that would prohibit most public agencies in Delaware from requiring job applicants to disclose their criminal history during the early steps of the hiring process passed the Delaware Senate. Gov. Jack Markell mentioned…




