State AGs And Consumer Protection: What We Learned From . . . Connecticut Part I

Our State AG webinar series continues with Connecticut Attorney General William Tong and Chief of the Privacy Consumer Protection Section Michele Lucan. During our webinar, the Connecticut AG's office described their structure and the tools available to them to enforce the state's consumer protection laws. In particular, as the fifth state to pass comprehensive privacy legislation, AG Tong highlighted the AG office's privacy priorities and agenda which we will focus on here in Part I. We will explore the more general consumer protection topics in Part II. In case you missed it, here is a recording of the webinar.

While the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (CUTPA – Connecticut's UDAP law) is broad and robust, in the privacy and cybersecurity space, the AG has additional authority derived from specific state laws such as the Data Breach Notification law and Connecticut's Data Privacy Act (CTDPA). General Tong noted Connecticut's dedication to enforcing consumer