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Oregon Consumer Privacy Act

Oregon privacy law (OCPA): processors

Law as of October 28, 2026 Reviewed by Sergio Maldonado Elvira on 29 October 2026

Summary (not the statute text)

Processors must follow instructions, help with consumer requests and assessments, and adopt reasonable safeguards. The contract must be binding and set out instructions, nature and purpose, data types and duration, and the parties' rights and obligations. It must require confidentiality, deletion or return, compliance information, subcontracts that flow down obligations, and assessments by the controller or an independent assessor.

Key points

  1. Processor duties: follow instructions, assist with consumer requests, adopt security safeguards, give information for assessments.

    Section: ORS 646A.581(1)

  2. Contract must be binding and state instructions, nature, purpose, data types, duration, rights and obligations.

    Section: ORS 646A.581(2)(a) to (c)

  3. Contract must require confidentiality, deletion or return, and information to verify compliance.

    Section: ORS 646A.581(2)(d) to (f)

  4. Subcontractors bound by a subcontract with the same obligations.

    Section: ORS 646A.581(2)(g)

  5. Assessments by the controller, its designee or an independent assessor, with results reported on request.

    Section: ORS 646A.581(2)(h)

  6. A person not bound by, or not following, instructions, or that starts setting purposes and means, is a controller.

    Section: ORS 646A.581(4)

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Law as of October 28, 2026.

Reviewed by Sergio Maldonado Elvira on 29 October 2026. Prepared from the official sources listed.

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