"Virginia has a very unique view of data privacy," Beth Burgin Waller, Chair of the Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Practice at Woods Rogers, told Law.com. "If you looked at when this hit, you were really coming at an emerging time when you had Europe with [General Data Protection Regulation] GDRP and California with CCPA. Out of the gate—out-of-nowhere, almost—it felt like Virginia came running to the scene with the CDPA, the Consumer Data Protection Act."
March 03, 2023 at 12:30 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.com
While it was no surprise that California, home to the global center for high tech innovation, led the way in passing and enacting consumer data privacy laws in 2020, Virginia hasn’t been far behind, with its own legislation going into effect at the beginning of the year.
Still, key differences set the laws apart in terms of how consumer challenges are handled.
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