Georgia Introduces Privacy Bill Stricter Than CCPA – The Top 10 Issues

On January 26, 2022, the Georgia General Assembly introduced a bill titled the Georgia Computer Data Privacy Act (GCDPA). Despite its title, the GCDPA is not a "computer"-focused bill. It is instead is an omnibus privacy statute modeled after California's Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The GCDPA was introduced by the Republican leadership in Georgia's state Senate, potentially granting it more favorable chances of making legislative progress than privacy bills in other states.

The GCDPA represents the first omnibus privacy bill introduced in Georgia, and one of the few state privacy bills primarily modeled after CCPA. However, the GCDPA is stricter than CCPA in a number of ways likely to be of significant interest to businesses across the United States. This article summarizes the top 10 ways in which GCDPA would create a privacy regime in Georgia that adopts, or is stricter than, what CCPA introduced in California.