Mayer Brown

Virginia is for lovers – and privacy lawyers. Although California has attracted most of the attention as the first US state to pass and enact comprehensive data privacy legislation, other states, including Virginia, have been swiftly following suit with regulations of their own.

The US data privacy landscape is chaotic. The future of the recently proposed American Data Privacy and Protection Act is now decidedly up in the air, and states are passing their own privacy laws in the absence of a federal one, which makes compliance complicated. Federal agencies like the FTC are also trying to fill the data privacy rulemaking void.