To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. The Governor of Virginia signed the state's Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) into law, marking it the second state in the U.S. to codify a major privacy and data protection law, after California. The VCDPA follows some of the arrangements of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) as amended by the Consumer Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), but still departs from them in important parts. Effective January 1, 2023, the VCDPA applies to personal data so long as it is not "de-identified data or publicly available