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Cities warned to prepare privacy programs as new state data law takes effect
Summary
HB 491 creates a broad personal-data definition and requires Utah governmental entities to implement a privacy program, annual reporting and training, contractor compliance clauses, notice at point of collection, and breach-notification procedures; most provisions are effective May 1, 2024 and privacy programs by May 1, 2025, the training warned.
Presenter (Speaker 1) warned municipal officials that HB 491 imposes broad, statewide obligations on local governments and will require operational changes to forms, contracts and employee training.
At the session the presenter said the bill’s personal-data definition is expansive — any information linked or reasonably linkable to an identifiable individual — and that cities and towns must adopt a privacy program (policies, practices and procedures for processing personal data) by…
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