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Delaware SMS Marketing and A2P Messaging Rules

A plain-language, source-linked guide to Delaware authorities relevant to SMS, MMS, telemarketing, privacy, consent, and do-not-call issues.

2reviewed source records
0express text-message sources
0fact-dependent sources
2related or unresolved sources

What the sources say

The Delaware sources reviewed for this page do not expressly establish a general SMS or MMS rule. They are included because related telemarketing, do-not-call, privacy, or consumer-protection requirements may still matter to a messaging program.

Authorities and official sources

Each entry explains what the source says, where its limits are, and what it does not establish.

State law · Current

Delaware Telemarketing Fraud Act

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How this authority relates to messaging

This source is relevant to the broader program, but the reviewed text does not expressly establish general SMS or MMS coverage.

What the source establishes

  • Delaware regulates sellers conducting commercial telemarketing.

Limits and important context

  • State enforcement.
  • Current Delaware Code page.
  • No express text-message inclusion was located in the chapter.

Official and supporting sources

  1. Chapter 25A, definitions and prohibited practices
Source and review details
Jurisdiction
Delaware
Source type
State law
Current status
Current

State law · Current

Delaware Personal Data Privacy Act

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How this authority relates to messaging

This source is relevant to the broader program, but the reviewed text does not expressly establish general SMS or MMS coverage.

What the source establishes

  • Notice, data minimization, security, rights handling, opt-out of sale/targeted advertising/profiling, sensitive-data consent, processor contracts, and 45-day response timing.

Limits and important context

  • Covers businesses targeting Delaware residents that meet 35,000-consumer or 10,000-plus-sale-revenue thresholds; processors are also in scope. Pulls phone-number-linked marketing data, preference data, and targeting/profiling data into a standard omnibus privacy framework. Delaware DOJ guidance is unusually practical, and it explicitly treats privacy notices, profiling opt-outs, and processor documentation as operational requirements. Effective January 1, 2025. Strongest surfaced official sources are Delaware Code and Delaware DOJ portal. The second threshold requires 10,000 consumers and more than 20% of gross revenue from personal-data sales; effective January 1, 2025.

Facts that may change the result

  • Does the organization meet Delaware privacy-law applicability thresholds?

Official and supporting sources

  1. Delaware Code Online
  2. Business - Delaware Department of Justice - State of Delaware
Source and review details
Jurisdiction
Delaware
Source type
State law
Current status
Current

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