MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (WV News) — The Center for Consumer Law and Education is calling on lawmakers to create new measures to protect consumers’ data privacy.
The center is a joint program between the West Virginia University College of Law and Marshall University. The call comes as a result of research conducted by WVU law professor Jena Martin.
The paper is titled “Data Privacy Issues in West Virginia and Beyond” and has also been adapted for an article on the West Virginia Law Review Online that focuses primarily on how these issues affect West Virginians.
As a result of Martin’s research, the CCLE is calling for new data privacy laws that include:
• Treating data as a property right that applies to individual consumers and considering all the actors involved in potentially violating data privacy, including big tech and lesser-known data brokers.
• Making privacy issues easy to understand for consumers so they can make more informed decisions
• Letting consumers have a voice in how the law that will affect them is shaped by convening hearings that are specifically focused on the consumer’s experience.
In both the paper and the article, Martin explores the various legal issues that affect data privacy collection and the different ways that consumers’ data are being used with and without their knowledge.
Using a survey and focus groups, Martin and a team of WVU Law students also gathered information on what West Virginians felt were their most pressing data privacy concerns...
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