Focal Point Blog Preparing for 2023: A United States Consumer Privacy Legislation Update

States’ momentum for releasing their own consumer privacy legislation is quickly picking up pace. So far this year, almost 200 consumer privacy bills have been introduced, roughly 70 of which (covering 25 states) were regarding establishing state-specific omnibus consumer privacy laws. Several states (e.g., Florida, Washington, and New York) tried passing similar bills to those proposed in prior years, but to no avail. However, Utah and Connecticut were both successful in their mission this year, passing the Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA) in March and the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CDPA) in May. Despite being only recently signed into law, these two regulations will go into effect in 2023, alongside California’s Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA), and Colorado’s Privacy Act (CPA).