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Throughout the month of February, states continued to introduce
new privacy laws of their own as Congress remained preoccupied with
enacting an additional COVID-19 relief package. Virginia emerged as
the primary highlight of the month, as the state's enactment of
the Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) on March 2 makes Virginia
the second state to enact a comprehensive state data privacy law in
the U.S., after the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA).
In addition to Virginia's enactment of the law, lawmakers in
California and other states have continued to unveil a slate of