Consumer Reports and the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) support S.B. 1356, legislation that would build on the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) by extending to Connecticut consumers important new protections, including meaningful data minimization restrictions, improvements to key terms like “sensitive data” and “biometric data”, removal of certain entity level exemptions, and more.
Consumer Reports and EPIC recently released a state model privacy bill that uses the CTDPA as the baseline. In part inspired by the Connecticut Attorney General’s report to the General Law Committee in February of last year, the model bill sought to identify areas in the CTDPA (often used as a model for other states to adopt) that could be improved to ensure that it meets its goal of providing strong consumer privacy protections. Several of the issues identified in our redline are addressed in S.B. 1356.
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