Virginia’s Foray Into Comprehensive Privacy Law
For what seemed like an eternity (okay, just a couple years), the California Consumer Privacy Act was the only game in town when it came to state-level, comprehensive privacy legislation. Sure, we saw many other states introduce similar bills, and Washington got close a couple times to passing the Washington Privacy Act. Those all died on the vine, however. In fact, California was the only state after itself to see passage of anything really big, with the California Privacy Rights Act (which amends the CCPA, and is not a separate, new law) gaining passage in the November 2020 election.