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As of this writing, five states — California, Colorado, Nevada, Vermont, and Virginia — have enacted their own data privacy laws. These laws have similar language in several areas, including

 The right to access and delete personal information

 The right to opt out of the sale of personal information

 Requirements that commercial websites or online services post a privacy policy (which we talk about later in this chapter)

These state laws didn’t just come into being by themselves. Legislators received help from the Uniform Law Commission (www.uniformlaws.org/home), a nonprofit organization, founded way back in 1892, to help states produce nonpartisan, uniform laws so that if you move from, say, Virginia to Vermont, you’re not gobsmacked by completely different laws.

We don’t want to smack your head, goblike or otherwise, so we tell you what you need to know about your rights as a consumer in these five states, starting with our home state of California.