Data privacy act refers to laws and regulations that govern the collection, use, storage, and sharing of personal data. These laws aim to protect individuals privacy preferences and personally identifiable information. The following are some of the notable data privacy laws:

• General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): This is a comprehensive privacy law in the European Union that requires companies to ask for permission to share data.

• Data Protection Act 2018 (United Kingdom): This is a UK law that governs the processing of personal data.

• Privacy Act of 1974 (United States): This is a US federal law that governs how federal agencies can collect and use data about individuals in its system of records.

• Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA): This is a US federal law that regulates the collection of personal information from children under 13 years of age.

• California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA): This is a California state law that regulates the collection, use, and sharing of personal data.

Data privacy laws can give individuals rights to control their data, but if poorly implemented, such laws could also maintain the status quo. The US has hundreds of sectoral data privacy and data security laws among its states, and there are several national privacy laws in various stages of legislation, but none that have a serious chance of being passed.