Libbie Canter and Kayvan Farchadi of Covington & Burling write: The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (HB 2307 / SB 1392), introduced in the House of Delegates on January 20, passed both houses of Virginia’s state legislature on February 5 with large bipartisan majorities. This comprehensive privacy bill, which would take effect on January 1, 2023, follows…
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Virginia Set to Become Second State to Pass a Comprehensive Privacy Law
Kirk J. Nahra and Ali A. Jessani of Wilmer Hale write: The long wait to see if any state would join California in passing a comprehensive privacy law is finally coming to an end, as the Virginia Senate passed the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) on February 3. An identical version of the bill had already…
Constitutional court bans bulk Internet surveillance in South Africa
Duncan McLeod reports: In a landmark judgment handed down on Thursday, the constitutional court banned the South African state from bulk surveillance of online communication, preventing security agencies from hoovering up Internet data. This sort of surveillance, which is routinely done by agencies such as the National Security Agency in the US and GCHQ in the…
US publisher not within GDPR scope despite European readership
Pinsent Masons writes: A US-registered publisher will not have to defend claims that its processing of a British resident’s personal data breached EU data protection laws after the High Court in London ruled that the laws do not apply to it. The court reached that verdict despite it recognising that the US publisher had a…