INTERIM Lege Trend: State Data Collection Bills. 5 Bits of Informed Intel.

The Virginia legislature is considering the Government Data Collection and Dissemination Practices Act which would:

• prohibit the state from secretly collecting data
• prohibit data collection “without a clear need for its collection”
• prohibit data collection by “fraudulent or unfair means”
•  targets of data collection would be notified about the purpose of the information gathering and would be given the opportunity to amend, correct and erase “inaccurate, obsolete or irrelevant information,”
• require agencies that store data to use secure methods for holding the data

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