Weekly IP Buzz for the Week Ending May 7, 2021

In this week's post, we see that Virginia and Florida lead the way when it comes to new state privacy law efforts in 2021.

Virginia and Florida Lead the Way in State Privacy Laws in 2021

New state privacy laws in Florida and Virginia will be modeled after GDPR and CCPA

A full three years after the passage of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, more state legislatures have finally begun to work on their respective versions of privacy laws. Currently, as of 2021, Virginia and Florida lead the way by authoring their own legislative acts that address consumer privacy.

Virginia and Florida’s proposed privacy laws, slated for 2023 and 2022 respectively, model themselves after the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), signaling that Virginia and Florida are both willing to take a stricter stance on consumer privacy than the protections that currently exist at the federal level. Both state laws will apply to companies conducting business within their respective state borders or businesses that process or control the personal data of a significant number of state residents. 

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In addition to publishing Thriving Attorney, Darin M. Klemchuk is founder of Klemchuk LLP, a litigation, intellectual property, and transactional law firm located in Dallas, Texas. Click to read more about Darin Klemchuk's practice as an intellectual property lawyer. For more on the latest developments in IP law, see the blogs Ideate and IP Questions Answered.