(The Center Square) — Georgia ranks among the worst states for its laws governing online privacy.
The Peach State scored 3.5 out of 25 points in a new analysis from Comparitech, a website focused on cyber security and online privacy. The site analyzed laws governing online privacy to determine how states ranked based on 22 key criteria.
“Georgia features toward the bottom of our rankings for privacy by state due to its lack of a comprehensive data privacy law and failure to cover a number of other key areas,” Rebecca Moody, head of data research at Comparitech, told The Center Square.
“Scoring 3.5 out of 25, Georgia manages to score a point for having a data disposal for companies (this doesn’t cover government entities, though), a law to protect K-12 student information, and a shield law to protect journalists,” Moody said. “The half point stems…
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