Keypoint: The VCDPA Work Group’s final report contains 17 “points of emphasis” derived from six Work Group meetings; however, the Work Group’s recommendations for modifying the VCDPA.
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California’s net neutrality law bars internet service providers from prioritizing, blocking, slowing down, or speeding up internet content. California’s law was created after the Trump-era Federal Communications Commission rolled back the federal net neutrality regulation in 2017. The Justice Department sued to overturn the California law, and several trade associations followed with a request for a preliminary injunction to stop the California law pending the outcome of the lawsuit. Judge John Mendez of the US District Court for the Eastern District of California recently gave California a green light to move forward with the net neutrality law after denying a motion for a preliminary injunction to stop the law from going into effect. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra called the ruling a “critical net neutrality win.”
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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 problems that arose in the development and implementation of both GDPR and CCPA. The Virginia bill deftly avoids several of those by incorporating narrower, more tailored definitions that clearly exclude categories of data and businesses over which there was (and continues to be) some confusion with respect to both the EU/UK and California compliance regimes. It also adopts, in concept, the framework