With Oklahoma’s Senate Judiciary Committee under new chairmanship, state Reps. Josh West, R-Grove, and Collin Walke, D-Oklahoma City, are hopeful the Oklahoma Data Privacy Act will be heard and passed in the upcoming session. The proposed legislation passed the House of Representatives last year, and West and Walke also filed an updated 2022 bill, intended to acknowledge Oklahomans’ privacy as a Constitutional right. State Rep. Logan Phillips, R-Mounds, has also filed legislation that would require entities collecting consumers’ personal information online to clearly share what data is being collected and why.
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