When Do the New State Privacy Laws Go into Effect?

An Introduction to the Colorado Privacy Act

The latest in an emerging patchwork of state privacy legislation in the United States, Colorado recently passed and signed into law the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA). It is mostly an iteration of Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA), also passed this year, but it has a few of its own unique features. It also takes a number of cues from the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), America’s first comprehensive data privacy law.