# Employers and employment agencies must disclose the data collected and their retention policy for the tool

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: New York City Local Law 144 of 2021 on Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT) and DCWP implementing rules
- **Jurisdiction**: New York (United States)
- **Category**: privacy_data_protection
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2023-07-05
- **Provision**: NYC Administrative Code Section 20-871(b)(3); 6 RCNY Section 5-303

## What the duty requires

Unless already disclosed on the website, an employer or employment agency must provide, within 30 days of a written request from a candidate or employee, information about the type of data the automated employment decision tool collects, the source of that data, and the employer's or agency's data retention policy. The DCWP rules allow this information to be posted publicly instead of answered case by case.

## What an organisation does about it

Publish a short data notice for the tool covering data types, sources and retention, or set up a 30-day response process for written requests.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Data governance and dataset documentation (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/data-governance-and-dataset-documentation
- Privacy and data-protection controls for AI (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/privacy-and-data-protection-for-ai

## Parent instrument

- New York City Local Law 144 of 2021 on Automated Employment Decision Tools (AEDT) and DCWP implementing rules
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-new-york-city-local-law-144-automated-employment-decision-tools
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-new-york-city-local-law-144-automated-employment-decision-tools.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-new-york-city-local-law-144-data-policy-disclosure
- **Official source**: https://www.nyc.gov/site/dca/about/automated-employment-decision-tools.page
- **Provision**: NYC Administrative Code Section 20-871(b)(3); 6 RCNY Section 5-303
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-24
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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