Law note · Alabama
Alabama Data Breach Notification Act of 2018
The Alabama Data Breach Notification Act of 2018 requires certain entities that experience a data breach to notify the Alabama Attorney General when the breach results in unauthorized acquisition of sensitive personally identifying information and is reasonably likely to cause substantial harm to the affected individuals.
This document could not verify the codified text of Ala. Code section 8-38-1 et seq. directly: Justia served a Cloudflare CAPTCHA challenge on every attempt, and FindLaw's Alabama coverage does not carry Title 8, Chapter 38.
The Act's specific notification deadline, civil penalty amount, and private-right-of-action posture are therefore not coded as verified findings in this document; secondary commentary describes a civil penalty of up to $5,000 per day capped at $500,000 per breach and no private right of action, but that has not been confirmed against the codified text in this pass.
What it asks of an app
- Notify the Alabama Attorney General of a breach involving unauthorized acquisition of sensitive personally identifying information that is reasonably likely to cause substantial harm to affected individuals.
- Do not rely on this document for this Act's specific notification deadline, civil penalty amount, or private-right-of-action posture. Those details are reported only in secondary commentary here, not confirmed against Ala. Code section 8-38-1 et seq. directly, because the codified text was unreachable in this research pass.
When LexLint raises it
Declared activities: crawls_web, trains_models, deploys_chatbot, automated_outreach
Primary source: official Alabama Attorney General's Office summary page