On March 2, 2021, Virginia Governor Ralph Northam signed into law the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), making Virginia the second state, after California, to enact general.
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California Can Enforce Net Neutrality Law After Court Victory
California’s net neutrality law bars internet service providers from prioritizing, blocking, slowing down, or speeding up internet content. California’s law was created after the Trump-era Federal Communications Commission rolled back the federal net neutrality regulation in 2017. The Justice Department sued to overturn the California law, and several trade associations followed with a request for a preliminary injunction to stop the California law pending the outcome of the lawsuit. Judge John Mendez of the US District Court for the Eastern District of California recently gave California a green light to move forward with the net neutrality law after denying a motion for a preliminary injunction to stop the law from going into effect. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra called the ruling a “critical net neutrality win.”
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California Attorney General Announces Approval of Additional CCPA Regulations. On March 15, now former California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced that the California Office of Administrative Law approved his fourth set of proposed modifications to the California Consumer Privacy Act’s (CCPA) implementing regulations (Fourth Set of Modifications), completing the finalization process. The Fourth Set of Modifications focus on providing consumers with clarity as to how they can
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Introduction
Consistent with a growing national trend, Virginia joined California in recently passing consumer privacy legislation with broad national reach. Both the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (Virginia CDPA) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) take effect on Jan. 1, 2023, following closely behind the recently passed and enacted California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which went into effect in January 2020. Kramer Levin developed the following checklist to help businesses better understand:
Whether these laws apply to your business
What consumer rights they create
How to respond to consumers exercising these rights
The best practices to streamline and ensure business compliance