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To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Earlier this week, the Commonwealth of Virginia became the second state to enact comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation, joining California. On March 2, Governor Ralph Northam signed the Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) into law, as he was widely expected to do. The CDPA garnered widespread support in Virginia’s House and Senate and was pushed across the goal line in Richmond relatively quickly. The CDPA establishes a fr...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Virginia is for lovers and, in the near future, may be for privacy as well, as the Commonwealth’s legislature is currently considering adopting its own comprehensive consumer data privacy law: The Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA). The CDPA, which would establish a framework for controlling and processing personal data in Virginia, is comprised of House Bill 2307 and Senate Bill 1392, and appears to be close to crossing the goal l...