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Expand Up @@ -416,6 +416,13 @@ <h3>United States Privacy Law</h3>
rely upon informal guidance or enforcement actions to provide clarity on the scope of legal
obligations around GPC signals.
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<p>
Other US state privacy laws, such as those in Virginia and Utah, give consumers new opt-out
rights around data sales and targeted advertising but are silent on the legal effect of
global opt-out signals. Regulators enforcing those statutes may determine that a user
activating a signal such as GPC may be sufficient to legally exercise opt-out rights in
those jurisdictions.
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<h3>Other Jurisdictions and Privacy Rights</h3>
<p>
GPC could potentially be used to indicate rights in other jurisdictions as well. For example, the
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legislation — often modeled on the GDPR; a regulator in one of those countries could determine that
GPC invokes a legal right that requires some response from a recipient.
</p>
<p>
Other US state privacy laws, such as those in Virginia and Utah, give consumers new opt-out
rights around data sales and targeted advertising but are silent on the legal effect of
global opt-out signals. Regulators enforcing those statutes may determine that a user
activating a signal such as GPC may be sufficient to legally exercise opt-out rights in
those jurisdictions.
</p>
<p>
However, GPC is not necessarily intended to invoke every new privacy right in every
jurisdiction. For example, GPC is not intended to globally invoke data deletion rights on
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