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Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed a comprehensive privacy law that gives consumers the right to access their personal data held by companies and allows them to request that it be deleted.
The Virginia law, which goes into effect in January 2023, also requires covered companies to conduct data protection assessments on personal information used for targeted advertising and sales purposes. Its passage gives companies doing business in the United States a second comprehensive state privacy bill to comply with after California passed a privacy law in 2018.
Some privacy advocates praise the Virginia law s focus on data security. Data protection assessments are a valuable way for businesses to understand what data they collect, said Ray Walsh, a digital privacy expert at privacy tool reviews site ProPrivacy.com.
Breaking news out of Florida: On April 21, 2021, the Florida House, in a near unanimous vote, passed the Florida Privacy Protection Act (FPPA). Largely modeled after the California.
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So far, 2021 is shaping up to be an important year for data privacy legislation. In March, Virginia enacted the Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) the nation s second comprehensive data privacy law. Dozens of state legislatures are actively considering data privacy bills, with California continuing to ramp up enforcement of the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA). Meanwhile, with Democrats in control of both the White House and Congress, the prospects of a comprehensive federal data privacy law have increased, and the first data privacy bill introduced in this Congress holds promise as a possible law that could garner bipartisan support. [1]
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Keypoint: This week an amended version of the Colorado Privacy Act unanimously passed out of committee, Alaska’s House held another hearing on its bill (and scheduled another hearing for May 12), Connecticut’s bill was tabled for the Senate calendar, and Nevada’s Assembly Committee on Commerce and Labor scheduled a May 10 hearing on its bill.
Below is our eleventh weekly update on the status of proposed CCPA-like privacy legislation. Before we get to our update, we wanted to provide two reminders.
First, we have been regularly updating our 2021 State Privacy Law Tracker to keep pace with the latest developments. We encourage you to bookmark the page for easy reference.