Information privacy law is a set of rules that help us protect our private information from being shared or used by other people without our permission. For example, imagine you have a secret code on your phone. Without information privacy law, someone could easily find out your code and use it without asking you. But with information privacy law, this can't happen. Information privacy laws require companies, websites and other organizations to keep our private information safe - like our passwords, social security numbers, and banking information. They also require companies to tell us what they are doing with our information, so we can make sure it stays safe.