'A Very Virginia Spin': Businesses Must Establish Internal Appeals Process Under New State Consumer Data Privacy Laws

"Virginia has a very unique view of data privacy," Beth Burgin Waller, Chair of the Cybersecurity & Data Privacy Practice at Woods Rogers, told Law.com. "If you looked at when this hit, you were really coming at an emerging time when you had Europe with General Data Protection Regulation GDRP and California with CCPA. Out of the gate—out-of-nowhere, almost—it felt like Virginia came running to the scene with the CDPA, the Consumer Data Protection Act."