With new data privacy, security laws in 21 states, dealers target compliance buildout
Twenty-one states now have data privacy or security laws on the books, and auto dealers are moving to build out compliance programs in response. The wave of state-level legislation is creating a patchwork of requirements that dealers operating across multiple states must now navigate.
Why this matters: Car dealers collect a lot about you. Income, credit history, insurance, driving habits, sometimes your Social Security number. For years, the rules around what they could do with that data were loose. Now 21 states have something on the books, and dealers are being pushed to actually build systems that protect it. The catch is that patchwork state laws create uneven protection depending on where you live. Someone in one state gets real rights over their data. Someone in the next state over may not. That gap is a problem worth watching.
Who should care: Lawyers · Compliance · General readers · Privacy officers · Policy
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