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Vermont: the laws your website or app must follow

If your customers are in Vermont, these are the privacy, consumer, security, accessibility and AI laws SafeLaunch checks your site against, with what each one requires and where in the law it says so.

Coming up in Vermont

  • 2028-01-01 · Vermont Data Privacy and Online Surveillance Act: Applies from 1 Jan 2028 (Act 145 of 2026, S.71). The Attorney General enforces it, with a 60-day chance to fix a violation from 1 Jan 2028 to 30 June 2029; no private lawsuits.
  • 2029-06-30 · Vermont Data Privacy and Online Surveillance Act: The Attorney General enforces it, with a 60-day chance to fix a violation from 1 Jan 2028 to 30 June 2029; no private lawsuits.

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Vermont Data Privacy and Online Surveillance Act

Applies from 1 Jan 2028 (Act 145 of 2026, S.71).

Who it covers: Businesses handling data of 35,000+ Vermont residents a year, or 3,000+ while earning any revenue from selling data.

What it requires of a website or app (11)

  • A privacy notice: categories, purposes, rights and how to appeal, data shared and with whomCheckedVDPOSA 9 V.S.A. §2415e(c)
  • Rights to access, correct, delete and port data, and to opt out of targeted ads, sale and profiling; appealsCheckedVDPOSA §2415d
  • Honour universal opt-out signals such as Global Privacy ControlCheckedVDPOSA §2415e(d)(2)(C) (opt-out preference signals)
  • Consent (or where the law allows, notice and an opt-out) before processing sensitive data; children's data handled under COPPAYour answersVDPOSA §2415e(a)(4)
  • Reasonable data securityCheckedVDPOSA §2415e(a)(3)
  • Data protection assessments for targeted ads, sale, profiling and sensitive dataPreparedVDPOSA §2415g
  • Say in your privacy notice whether you collect, use or sell personal data to train large language models, and show the month and year it was last updatedAI review§2415e(c)(1)(H)–(I)
  • No geofence within 1,850 feet of a health care facility to track or message people about their health; no sale of consumer health data without consentAI review§2415k
  • Impact assessment for any profiling that makes legal or similarly significant decisions about peopleAI review§2415g(c)
  • Offer the privacy notice in every language you sell in, and keep it accessible to people with disabilitiesAI review§2415e(c)(2)(C)–(D)
  • No targeted ads to, or sale of data of, anyone you know or wilfully ignore is 13 to 17AI review§2415e(a)(7)

Sources:Vermont Act 145 of 2026 (S.71), as enacted

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A plain-language summary of what each law requires of a website or app, from the SafeLaunch rulebook, with the provision and official sources. It is not legal advice and not every duty in each law is listed.