Colorado, Connecticut Data Privacy Laws Go Into Effect July 1

Data privacy laws in Colorado and Connecticut will go into effect Saturday. From a report: If companies haven't finished their compliance work to abide by the rules, they could face civil penalties of up to $20,000 per violation in some states. Colorado and Connecticut add to an increasingly complex patchwork of state data privacy laws. California paved the way in 2018 after passing the country's first state-level privacy bill, while Virginia followed this year.

The Colorado and Connecticut laws apply to entities that do business in those states, as well as businesses that process a certain amount of data about in-state customers. Under the new laws, residents of each state will have the right to request businesses delete their personal information, ask for a copy of the information businesses have collected about them, opt out of the sale of their personal data, and more. Both laws also require businesses to request opt-in permission from consumers before letting businesses process their sensitive information -- differing from the opt-out mechanism consumers have in California

Good! Should be National!

[BrendaEM]

We cannot have a secure nation, with companies keeping a dossier on every person.

Private right of action?

[schwit1]

Do the laws have a private right of action? If not, they are written by Amazon and toothless. Virginia's is toothless.

So in other words a fraction of the net profits

[Shadow of Eternity]

Start arresting board members and seizing percentages of the gross, instead of these pathetic "cost of doing business" line items that may as well be a rounding error for any sizeable company these days.

Weird

[byronivs]

Think this issue would have more cheerleaders. Yay for the good stuff! More please.