Few Virginia residents have filed complaints over potential violations of the state’s new privacy law, and those who have done so are grappling with confusion over its application and which companies have to comply, documents released by the state attorney general’s office show.
The office received just 35 complaints regarding the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act in roughly a year since the law took effect on Jan. 1, 2023, according to information provided to Bloomberg Law under an open records request. Sixteen of those complaints were still open as of early February 2024.
“At first blush, it seems surprisingly low,” ...