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Code Ann. § 75-24-29 for breach notification, plus the consumer-protection deceptive-practices statute and its narrow individual private remedy.", "state": "Mississippi", "lastReviewed": "2026-06-12", "license": "CC BY 4.0", "authors": [ "steven-obiajulu" ], "summary": { "keyLaw": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29 (data-breach notification), plus Miss. Code Ann. §§ 75-24-5 and 75-24-15 for unfair or deceptive trade practices and individual consumer remedies — Mississippi has no comprehensive consumer-privacy statute", "appliesTo": "The breach-notification statute applies to any person conducting business in Mississippi that, in the ordinary course of business, owns, licenses, or maintains personal information of a Mississippi resident; the deceptive-practices statute reaches unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive trade practices in or affecting commerce", "privacyPolicyRequired": "No Mississippi statute generally requires a consumer privacy policy or fixes its contents; a policy that misstates actual practices is reachable as a deceptive-practices risk under Miss. 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The state-law privacy program is breach notice, vendor notice-up, and truthfulness of consumer-facing privacy promises.", "lawCoverage": "baseline", "policyMandate": "none", "consumersCanSue": "narrow", "sensitiveDataConsent": "none", "universalOptOutSignal": "notRequired" }, "about": [ "Mississippi consumer privacy law", "Mississippi data breach notification 75-24-29", "Mississippi privacy policy requirements", "Mississippi Consumer Protection Act privacy", "Mississippi no comprehensive privacy law", "Mississippi vendor breach notification", "Mississippi Attorney General privacy enforcement", "Mississippi data breach private right of action", "Mississippi class actions prohibited consumer protection", "Mississippi unfair or deceptive trade practices privacy" ], "translations": [ { "language": "中文", "status": "planned" }, { "language": "Español", "status": "planned" }, { "language": "Português", "status": "planned" }, { "language": "Deutsch", "status": "planned" } ] }, "questions": [ { "slug": "which-privacy-laws-apply", "label": "Which privacy laws apply to your business in Mississippi?", "heading": "Which privacy laws apply to your business in Mississippi?", "answerText": "Mississippi has no comprehensive consumer-privacy law. The generally applicable state privacy framework is two-part: the breach-notification statute, which applies to any person conducting business in Mississippi that owns, licenses, or maintains personal information of Mississippi residents in the ordinary course of business, and the consumer-protection prohibition on unfair methods of competition and unfair or deceptive trade practices in or affecting commerce.", "sources": [ { "id": "ms-breach-scope", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29", "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29(1).", "url": "https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A627R-MSW3-GXJ9-31CB-00008-00", "proposition": "Mississippi's breach-notification statute applies to any person conducting business in Mississippi that owns, licenses, or maintains personal information of a Mississippi resident in the ordinary course of business.", "verbatimQuote": "This section applies to any person who conducts business in this state and who, in the ordinary course of the person’s business functions, owns, licenses or maintains personal information of any resident of this state.", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-ms-breach-scope" }, { "id": "ms-deceptive-practices", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-5", "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-5(1).", "url": "https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A6FD9-SMJ3-SD6B-V4MW-00008-00", "proposition": "Mississippi prohibits unfair methods of competition affecting commerce and unfair or deceptive trade practices in or affecting commerce.", "verbatimQuote": "Unfair methods of competition affecting commerce and unfair or deceptive trade practices in or affecting commerce are prohibited.", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-ms-deceptive-practices" } ] }, { "slug": "privacy-policy-contents", "label": "What must your Mississippi privacy policy contain?", "heading": "What must your Mississippi privacy policy contain?", "answerText": "No Mississippi statute generally requires a consumer privacy policy or fixes its contents. The binding state-law rule is truthfulness: unfair or deceptive trade practices in or affecting commerce are prohibited. A privacy policy that misstates how the business collects, uses, shares, secures, or retains data is therefore a deceptive-practices risk under Mississippi law and independently under FTC Act § 5.", "sources": [ { "id": "q2-ms-deceptive", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-5", "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-5(1).", "url": "https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A6FD9-SMJ3-SD6B-V4MW-00008-00", "proposition": "Mississippi prohibits unfair methods of competition affecting commerce and unfair or deceptive trade practices in or affecting commerce.", "verbatimQuote": "Unfair methods of competition affecting commerce and unfair or deceptive trade practices in or affecting commerce are prohibited.", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q2-ms-deceptive" }, { "id": "q2-ftc5", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "FTC Act § 5", "citation": "15 U.S.C. § 45(a)(1).", "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/45", "deepLink": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/45#:~:text=Unfair%20methods%20of%20competition%20in,commerce%2C%20are%20hereby%20declared%20unlawful.", "proposition": "Section 5 of the FTC Act declares unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce unlawful, which reaches a privacy policy that misstates a business's actual data practices.", "verbatimQuote": "Unfair methods of competition in or affecting commerce, and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in or affecting commerce, are hereby declared unlawful.", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q2-ftc5" }, { "id": "q2-glba-notice", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "GLBA privacy notice", "citation": "15 U.S.C. § 6802(a).", "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/6802", "deepLink": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/6802#:~:text=a%20financial%20institution%20may%20not%2C,section%206803%20of%20this%20title.", "proposition": "A GLBA financial institution may not disclose nonpublic personal information to a nonaffiliated third party unless it has provided the consumer a compliant privacy notice.", "verbatimQuote": "a financial institution may not, directly or through any affiliate, disclose to a nonaffiliated third party any nonpublic personal information, unless such financial institution provides or has provided to the consumer a notice that complies with section 6803 of this title.", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q2-glba-notice" }, { "id": "q2-hipaa-notice", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices", "citation": "45 C.F.R. § 164.520(a)(1).", "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/45/164.520", "deepLink": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/45/164.520#:~:text=an%20individual%20has%20a%20right,respect%20to%20protected%20health%20information", "proposition": "A HIPAA covered entity must give individuals a notice describing uses and disclosures of protected health information, individual rights, and the entity's legal duties.", "verbatimQuote": "an individual has a right to adequate notice of the uses and disclosures of protected health information that may be made by the covered entity, and of the individual's rights and the covered entity's legal duties with respect to protected health information", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q2-hipaa-notice" }, { "id": "q2-coppa-notice", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "COPPA", "citation": "15 U.S.C. § 6502(a)(1).", "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/6502", "deepLink": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/15/6502#:~:text=It%20is%20unlawful%20for%20an,regulations%20prescribed%20under%20subsection%20(b).", "proposition": "COPPA prohibits covered operators from collecting children's personal information in violation of the FTC's notice and parental-consent regulations.", "verbatimQuote": "It is unlawful for an operator of a website or online service directed to children, or any operator that has actual knowledge that it is collecting personal information from a child, to collect personal information from a child in a manner that violates the regulations prescribed under subsection (b).", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q2-coppa-notice" } ] }, { "slug": "vendor-contracts", "label": "What must your contracts with vendors say?", "heading": "What must your contracts with vendors say?", "answerText": "Mississippi has no general data-processing-agreement statute. It does not prescribe controller-to-processor instructions, deletion clauses, audit rights, or subprocessor flow-downs. The Mississippi-specific vendor rule is breach-response flow-up: a person conducting business in Mississippi that maintains computerized personal information it does not own or license must notify the owner or licensee as soon as practicable after discovery of a breach, if the personal information was or is reasonably believed to have been acquired by an unauthorized person for fraudulent purposes.", "sources": [ { "id": "q3-vendor-notice", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29", "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29(4).", "url": "https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A627R-MSW3-GXJ9-31CB-00008-00", "proposition": "A Mississippi vendor maintaining computerized personal information it does not own or license must notify the owner or licensee as soon as practicable after discovering a breach involving unauthorized acquisition or reasonably believed acquisition for fraudulent purposes.", "verbatimQuote": "Any person who conducts business in this state that maintains computerized data which includes personal information that the person does not own or license shall notify the owner or licensee of the information of any breach of the security of the data as soon as practicable following its discovery", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q3-vendor-notice" }, { "id": "q3-glba-safeguards", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "GLBA Safeguards Rule", "citation": "16 C.F.R. § 314.4(f).", "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/16/314.4", "deepLink": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/16/314.4#:~:text=Oversee%20service%20providers%2C%20by%3A%20(1),continued%20adequacy%20of%20their%20safeguards.", "proposition": "The GLBA Safeguards Rule requires a financial institution to oversee its service providers — selecting capable providers, requiring safeguards by contract, and periodically assessing them.", "verbatimQuote": "Oversee service providers, by: (1) Taking reasonable steps to select and retain service providers that are capable of maintaining appropriate safeguards for the customer information at issue; (2) Requiring your service providers by contract to implement and maintain such safeguards; and (3) Periodically assessing your service providers based on the risk they present and the continued adequacy of their safeguards.", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q3-glba-safeguards" }, { "id": "q3-hipaa-baa", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "HIPAA Business Associate Contracts", "citation": "45 C.F.R. § 164.504(e)(2).", "url": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/45/164.504", "deepLink": "https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/45/164.504#:~:text=A%20contract%20between%20the%20covered,information%20by%20the%20business%20associate.", "proposition": "HIPAA requires a written business-associate contract that establishes the permitted and required uses and disclosures of protected health information by the business associate.", "verbatimQuote": "A contract between the covered entity and a business associate must: (i) Establish the permitted and required uses and disclosures of protected health information by the business associate.", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q3-hipaa-baa" } ] }, { "slug": "breach-notification", "label": "When must you notify people of a data breach in Mississippi?", "heading": "When must you notify people of a data breach in Mississippi?", "answerText": "Mississippi requires notice to all affected individuals without unreasonable delay after a covered breach, subject to completing an investigation, identifying affected individuals, restoring system integrity, and any law-enforcement or national-security delay. There is no fixed day-count deadline in the captured statute. Individual notice is not required if, after an appropriate investigation, the person reasonably determines that the breach will not likely result in harm to affected individuals.", "sources": [ { "id": "q4-resident-notice", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29", "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29(3).", "url": "https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A627R-MSW3-GXJ9-31CB-00008-00", "proposition": "A person conducting business in Mississippi must disclose a covered breach to all affected individuals without unreasonable delay, subject to investigation, identification of affected individuals, system-restoration measures, and statutory delay provisions.", "verbatimQuote": "A person who conducts business in this state shall disclose any breach of security to all affected individuals. The disclosure shall be made without unreasonable delay, subject to the provisions of subsections (4) and (5) of this section and the completion of an investigation by the person to determine the nature and scope of the incident, to identify the affected individuals, or to restore the reasonable integrity of the data system.", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q4-resident-notice" }, { "id": "q4-harm-offramp", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29", "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29(3).", "url": "https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A627R-MSW3-GXJ9-31CB-00008-00", "proposition": "Mississippi individual notice is not required if, after appropriate investigation, the person reasonably determines that the breach will not likely result in harm to affected individuals.", "verbatimQuote": "Notification shall not be required if, after an appropriate investigation, the person reasonably determines that the breach will not likely result in harm to the affected individuals.", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q4-harm-offramp" }, { "id": "q4-breach-def", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29", "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29(2)(a).", "url": "https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A627R-MSW3-GXJ9-31CB-00008-00", "proposition": "A Mississippi breach of security is unauthorized acquisition of electronic files, media, databases, or computerized data containing personal information when access has not been secured by encryption or another method rendering it unreadable or unusable.", "verbatimQuote": "“Breach of security” means unauthorized acquisition of electronic files, media, databases or computerized data containing personal information of any resident of this state when access to the personal information has not been secured by encryption or by any other method or technology that renders the personal information unreadable or unusable", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q4-breach-def" }, { "id": "q4-affected-individual", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29", "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29(2)(b)(iv).", "url": "https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A627R-MSW3-GXJ9-31CB-00008-00", "proposition": "An affected individual is a Mississippi resident whose personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, intentionally acquired by an unauthorized person through a breach.", "verbatimQuote": "“Affected individual” means any individual who is a resident of this state whose personal information was, or is reasonably believed to have been, intentionally acquired by an unauthorized person through a breach of security.", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q4-affected-individual" }, { "id": "q4-pi-def", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29", "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29(2)(b).", "url": "https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A627R-MSW3-GXJ9-31CB-00008-00", "proposition": "Mississippi personal information is name plus Social Security number, driver's license/state ID/tribal ID number, or financial-account/payment-card number with a required security code, access code, or password permitting account access.", "verbatimQuote": "“Personal information” means an individual’s first name or first initial and last name in combination with any one or more of the following data elements:", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q4-pi-def" }, { "id": "q4-notice-methods", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29", "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29(6).", "url": "https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A627R-MSW3-GXJ9-31CB-00008-00", "proposition": "Mississippi permits written, telephone, electronic, or substitute notice; substitute notice is available when cost exceeds $5,000, the affected class exceeds 5,000 individuals, or contact information is insufficient, and requires email, website posting, and major statewide media.", "verbatimQuote": "substitute notice, provided the person demonstrates that the cost of providing notice in accordance with paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of this subsection would exceed Five Thousand Dollars ($5,000.00), that the affected class of subject persons to be notified exceeds five thousand (5,000) individuals or the person does not have sufficient contact information.", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q4-notice-methods" }, { "id": "q4-enforcement", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29", "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29(8).", "url": "https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A627R-MSW3-GXJ9-31CB-00008-00", "proposition": "Failure to comply with Mississippi's breach-notification section is an unfair trade practice enforced by the Attorney General, and the section creates no private right of action.", "verbatimQuote": "Failure to comply with the requirements of this section shall constitute an unfair trade practice and shall be enforced by the Attorney General; however, nothing in this section may be construed to create a private right of action.", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q4-enforcement" } ] }, { "slug": "consumer-lawsuit", "label": "Can a consumer sue your business in Mississippi over privacy?", "heading": "Can a consumer sue your business in Mississippi over privacy?", "answerText": "Not under the breach-notification section itself: § 75-24-29 expressly says it does not create a private right of action. The available private route is narrower: an individual who purchases or leases goods or services primarily for personal, family, or household purposes and suffers an ascertainable loss from a practice prohibited by § 75-24-5 may bring an action or assert the loss as a setoff or counterclaim.", "sources": [ { "id": "q5-no-breach-pra", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29", "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-29(8).", "url": "https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A627R-MSW3-GXJ9-31CB-00008-00", "proposition": "Mississippi's breach-notification section is enforced by the Attorney General and expressly creates no private right of action.", "verbatimQuote": "Failure to comply with the requirements of this section shall constitute an unfair trade practice and shall be enforced by the Attorney General; however, nothing in this section may be construed to create a private right of action.", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q5-no-breach-pra" }, { "id": "q5-individual-action", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-15", "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-15(1).", "url": "https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A627H-RXF3-GXJ9-31SS-00008-00", "proposition": "An individual purchaser or lessee of goods or services for personal, family, or household purposes who suffers ascertainable loss from a practice prohibited by § 75-24-5 may bring an individual action or assert the loss as a setoff or counterclaim.", "verbatimQuote": "any person who purchases or leases goods or services primarily for personal, family or household purposes and thereby suffers any ascertainable loss of money or property, real or personal, as a result of the use or employment by the seller, lessor, manufacturer or producer of a method, act or practice prohibited by Section 75-24-5 may bring an action at law", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q5-individual-action" }, { "id": "q5-informal-dispute", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-15", "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-15(2).", "url": "https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A627H-RXF3-GXJ9-31SS-00008-00", "proposition": "Before bringing a private action under the chapter, the plaintiff must have made a reasonable attempt to resolve the claim through an Attorney-General-approved informal dispute settlement program.", "verbatimQuote": "In any private action brought under this chapter, the plaintiff must have first made a reasonable attempt to resolve any claim through an informal dispute settlement program approved by the Attorney General.", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q5-informal-dispute" }, { "id": "q5-class-bar", "authorityType": "primary-law", "tier": "primary-source-backed", "title": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-15", "citation": "Miss. Code Ann. § 75-24-15(4).", "url": "https://advance.lexis.com/document/?pdmfid=1000516&pddocfullpath=%2Fshared%2Fdocument%2Fstatutes-legislation%2Furn%3AcontentItem%3A627H-RXF3-GXJ9-31SS-00008-00", "proposition": "Mississippi does not permit class actions under the chapter; every private action must be maintained for the sole use and benefit of the individual person.", "verbatimQuote": "Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to permit any class action or suit, but every private action must be maintained in the name of and for the sole use and benefit of the individual person.", "anchor": "https://openagreements.org/practice-guides/privacy/us/mississippi#src-q5-class-bar" } ] } ] } }