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[co-author: Gabriella Manduca] On March 2, 2021, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam signed into law the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA), making Virginia the second state after California to enact comprehensive privacy legislation. The CDPA will become effective on January 1, 2023, the same day the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) comes into effect, replacing the current California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which went into effect in 2020. The new Virginia law draws on concepts from the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (such as the use of “controllers�...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On March 2, 2021, the Governor of Virginia signed the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) into law, which goes into effect on January 1, 2023. The law applies only to businesses with large amounts of consumer data and does not apply to employee or business-to-business (B2B) data. The CDPA also provides broad exemptions, including for financial institutions subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and covered entities and business associates subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). Broa...