
Keypoint: Connecticut once again moves the needle on state privacy laws while at the same time integrating changes from other state laws.
On June 25, Connecticut Governor Lamont signed Senator James Maroney’s SB 1295 into law. The bill makes several notable changes to Connecticut’s existing consumer data privacy law, including modifying its applicability standard, exemptions, definitions, consumer rights, data minimization provisions, and children’s privacy sections. The bill also significantly modifies the law’s approach to profiling that will impact the use of artificial intelligence in some contexts.
In the below post, we provide a summary of the more notable changes. For each of the changes, we also provide the context for the change, including what the change means, its potential consequences, and how it fits into the larger landscape of state data privacy laws.