The UCPA provides Utah consumers with several essential rights concerning their personal data. You have the right to confirm whether a business is processing your personal data. If a business is processing your data, you have the right to access that data and request it be deleted.
It requires businesses that collect data to protect the confidentiality and integrity of that data to reduce the risk of harm associated with processing it. Organizations must also provide consumers with clear and accessible privacy notices and inform them about how they can opt out of the sale of their data.
This act shall be construed liberally to promote the following policies: (1) to simplify, clarify, and modernize the law governing consumer sales practices; (2) to protect consumers from suppliers who commit deceptive and unconscionable sales practices; (3) to encourage the development of fair consumer sales practices; ...
Investigative consumer reports contain information on an individual that is not in their credit report, including their "character, general reputation, personal characteristics, or mode of living" and are most often used by employers to check on job applicants.
(a) A consumer who suffers loss as a result of a violation of this chapter may bring a class action for the actual damages caused by an act or practice specified as violating this chapter by a rule adopted by the enforcing authority under Subsection 13-11-8(2) before the consumer transactions on which the action is ...
The Privacy Act requires that Government agencies: collect only information that is relevant and necessary to carry out an agency function; maintain no secret records on individuals; explain at the time the information is being collected, why it is needed and how it will be used; ensure that the records are used only ...
The UCPA applies to any controller or processor who (1) conducts business in Utah or produces a product or service targeted to Utah residents; (2) has annual revenue of at least $25,000,000; and (3) satisfies at least one of the following: controls or processes personal data of at least 100,000 consumers annually; or.
Employers must get your written permission before running a background check from a background reporting company. You have the right to say no, but if you do, you may not get the job.
Protection of personal information. destroy, or arrange for the destruction of, records containing personal information that are not to be retained by the person. otherwise modifying the personal information to make the information indecipherable.
13-61-201 Consumer rights -- Access -- Deletion -- Portability -- Opt out of certain processing. (1) A consumer has the right to: Page 7 Utah Code Page 7 (a) confirm whether a controller is processing the consumer's personal data; and (b) access the consumer's personal data.