Florida state legislature is considering a sweeping data privacy bill giving consumers greater control over how their personal information is used while imposing greater restrictions on companies’ use of that data.
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On March 2, 2021, Governor Northam signed into law Virginia’s own Consumer Data Protection Act (“Virginia CDPA” or the “Act”), a bill that brings together concepts from the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). It is the first of its kind legislation on the East Coast. The law will go into effect on January 1, 2023.
The drafters of the Virginia CDPA appear to have benefited from observing the pitfalls and problems that arose in the development and implementation of both GDPR and CCPA. The Virginia bill deftly avoids several of those by incorporating narrower, more tailored definitions that clearly exclude categories of data and businesses over which there was (and continues to be) some confusion with respect to both the EU/UK and California compliance regimes. It also adopts, in concept, the framework
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Though it seems Virginia is following California s lead by
becoming the second state with its own comprehensive data privacy
legislation, Virginia s Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA)
diverges from the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the
California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) in that it is far more
business-friendly and does not have the “teeth” that
the CCPA does.
The Virginia House of Delegates adopted the CDPA, HB 2307, on January 29, 2021, and the Virginia
Senate approved an identical companion bill, SB 1392, on February
5. The General Assembly voted to send the CDPA to Governor Ralph
We had started getting (sort of) comfortable with the CCPA California’s omnibus privacy legislation when the state decided to change the law again. The CCPA just began to be enforced.