As Connecticut Data Protection Law Comes into Effect, New Law Amends—and Adds—Key Provisions

Lexology August 7, 2023
Benesch Friedlander Coplan & Aronoff LLP

A recently passed law in Connecticut adds in specific protections on sub-sets of consumer health data, creates new rights related to social media, and clarifies requirements related to children’s data.

This year has seen a flurry of new data protection laws and regulations—especially at the state level, which continued as the calendar flipped from June to July as Colorado and Connecticut’s data protection laws are now in effect and enforceable.

In June, however, just prior to the Connecticut data protection law’s effective and enforcement date, the Connecticut state legislature passed, and the governor signed, an amendment expanding the law.

While the previous, unamended version of Connecticut’s data protection law included “health data” in its definition of what it considered “sensitive”...

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