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The year 2023 is proving to be an important year in the privacy world. Colorado recently joined an expanding list of states to have enacted comprehensive privacy laws.
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: There are many similarities between the Colorado Privacy Act (ColoPA), the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), the Virginia Consumer Data privacy Act (VCDPA), and Europe’s GDPR, which gives companies that are compliant— or are working towards compliance— with these other laws a substantial headstart with ColoPA compliance. In a signing statement on July 8, 2021, the Colorado Governor, traditionally a strong privacy advocate, expressed concern that the law may go too far. However, ...
On March 4, the Oklahoma Computer Data Privacy Act (HB 1602) passed the state House of Representatives by a vote of 85-11. If enacted in its current form, the bill would take effect on January 1, 2023
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. Throughout the month of March, states continued to introduce new privacy laws of their own as Congress focused on enacting President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan—H.R. 1319, the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021—which President Biden signed into law on March 11. The last month notably featured several key developments in California, as the state announced the establishment of the five-member inaugural board for the California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA), a new administr...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: 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 problem...