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The Virginia privacy law going into effect January 2023 received some minor tweaks this month. In particular, provisions around deletion requests. As originally enacted, the Virginia law mirrored similar provisions in California and Europe, giving individuals the ability to ask for their information to be deleted. As amended, if information that the individual asks to be deleted was obtained “from a source other than the consumer” then the business can treat that deletion request as a request to opt out of targeted advertising, sale, and profiling. The business can also delete the information.
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Virginia edges closer to its privacy law January 2023 implementation. A new working group report gives some insight on implementation focus. The working group is tasked with giving advice on implementing the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act. It held a series of meetings with companies and other stakeholders throughout the year. This current report summarizes “points of emphasis” from those meetings.  Those included that law be interpreted strictly. For example, sunseting companies “right to cure” after two years. Another point raised was whether to let the attorney general seek actual damages based on harm.
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