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Here are curated AG and federal regulatory news stories highlighting key areas in which state and federal regulators’ decisions are having an impact across the US: •Virginia AG Reaches $1.3 Million Settlement with NFL Team...more
Keypoint: It was a busy week with lawmakers in Virginia and Colorado moving forward with bills to amend the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act and Colorado Privacy Act....more
CALIFORNIA - On March 29, 2024, the amended California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) regulations will take effect. These regulations were originally slated to take effect in 2023, but a court ruling (that is being appealed)...more
Leading consumer brands are facing increased and often highly politicized scrutiny from state attorneys general and other state regulators. The landscape of state AG complaints, investigations, and litigation is evolving...more
The modern “Information Age” has been defined by rapidly increasing interconnectivity and dependence on the internet by consumers and businesses alike. One side effect of these technological advances has been the increasing...more
Texas recently became the tenth state to pass a comprehensive consumer data privacy law when its legislature voted in favor of the Texas Data Privacy and Security Act (TDPSA). The bill was signed by Governor Greg Abbott on...more
The Colorado Attorney General's Office recently finalized rules for the Colorado Privacy Act ("CPA Rules") which was signed into law in July 2021. The Colorado Privacy Act ("CPA") will soon join the California Consumer...more
Last year, Virginia became the second state (after California) to enact a consumer privacy law. That law, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), went into effect on January 1, 2023....more
Did Your Company Assess its Data Collection Practices and Update Its Privacy Policy on January 1, 2023 to Comply with Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Law? The Commonwealth of Virginia passed its comprehensive Virginia...more
On January 1, 2023, Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act (“Virginia Privacy Law”) went into effect, the second in the US aimed to protect consumers’ personal data. We previously blogged about its passage. Here’s what you...more
2023 already is a landmark year for privacy regulation. As of January 1, 2023, two new privacy laws are now in effect: (1) the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which amends the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), and...more
Service providers, contractors and data collectors operating in California and Virginia, must prepare for imminent changes. The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which amends the current California Consumer Privacy Act...more
In 2023, five new state privacy laws will become effective. How will these new laws affect your business? Currently, privacy laws in the United States include a patchwork of state laws as well as some industry- or...more
Virginia will be only the second state in the country to have a comprehensive data privacy law in effect. On January 1, 2023, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) takes effect. VCDPA provides Virginia...more
The talk of “opt-out preference signals” or global privacy controls (GPC) has been increasing as companies dig into the forthcoming requirements under US “comprehensive” privacy laws. What is an opt-out preference signal? An...more
Connecticut Passes the Fifth US State Consumer Privacy Law - The Connecticut governor has formally signed and passed An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring (CPDA), making this law the fifth US state...more
Connecticut just joined California, Colorado, Utah, and Virginia in passing a comprehensive privacy law. The Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) goes into effect July 1, 2023, the same time as Colorado’s very similar law...more
Utah is the latest state to enact a comprehensive privacy law after the governor signed the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (“UCPA”) on March 24 of this year. UCPA goes into effect on December 31, 2023. California, Virginia, and...more
The Virginia privacy law going into effect January 2023 received some minor tweaks this month. In particular, provisions around deletion requests. As originally enacted, the Virginia law mirrored similar provisions in...more
Governor Glenn Youngkin of Virginia recently approved legislation to amend the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA). In a time when data privacy bills creep through state legislatures only to die in committee,...more
Keypoint: The VCDPA is now finalized in advance of its January 1, 2023 effective date. On April 11, 2022, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed three Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) amendment bills into...more
Keypoint: Organizations that collect personal data from children under 16 will need to ensure compliance with additional requirements once the laws go into effect. This is the ninth post in our ten-part weekly series...more
Keypoint: This week legislatures in Florida, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin closed without passing bills while Maryland’s bill was converted into a one-year study. Below is our ninth weekly update on the status of...more
Keypoint: The requirements for recognizing opt-out preference signals for certain types of processing vary widely depending on which state laws apply. This is the sixth post in our ten-part weekly series comparing key...more
As first reported by the IAPP’s Joe Duball, the Wisconsin Assembly voted 59-37 to pass AB 957. The bill is similar, but not identical, to the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)....more