S71 – Data Privacy and Online Surveillance

VTLawState

Date Passed

6/16/2026

Effective Date

1/1/2028

Summary

Creates profiling opt-out and explanation rights for consequential decisions, including healthcare services, and requires impact assessments. Privacy notices must disclose personal-data use for large-language-model training.

Healthcare Implications

Nonexempt health-related controllers face automated-decision rights and governance duties. Qualifying providers, facilities, insurers, third-party administrators, and protected health information have exemptions. The housing-only reevaluation right is not a general healthcare human-review right.

Operational Implications

  • Document impact assessments for consequential profiling; assessment requirements apply to processing created or generated after January 1, 2028.
  • Provide detailed consequential-profiling impact assessments to the Attorney General on request during an investigation; assessments are confidential.

Impact Level

High

Keywords

Privacy & Data; Transparency & Governance

Stakeholders

Patients & Public; Developers & Vendors; Regulators & Government