Law status
Verified comprehensive law
Yes - Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA)
- Official name / citation
- Conn. Gen. Stat. §§ 42-515 to 42-526 and §§ 42-528 to 42-529e (Chapter 743jj)
- Status / effective date
- Codified and in force per fetched chapter
- Principal enforcer
- Connecticut Attorney General (exclusive enforcement)
Direct attached-library attribution
2 cases · $360,000
These totals are assigned solely by the attachment’s state heading. Shared multistate totals are not allocated in full to every state.
The attached library does not enumerate participant-level allocations for every multistate matter; shared settlement totals are presented once at the national level and are not duplicated into state totals.
Official law sources
Other generally applicable PII law
n.a.
Public enforcement context
Tier 1
Illuminate Education, Inc.
$5.1 million total ($150,000 Connecticut; $1.7 million New York; $3.25 million California) · November 6, 2025
First action under Connecticut's student data privacy law, arising from Illuminate's 2022 breach exposing student personal information.
Legal basis: Connecticut student data privacy law (2016, amended 2017 and 2018)
Mapped control outcomes
1 personal data inventory/data map; 2 sensitive-data discovery; 3 downstream copy tracking; 8 breach blast-radius analysis; 9 retention/minimization; 10 regulator audit evidence
Kestryl can evidence where regulated personal data actually resides across structured stores and unstructured attachments/images, produce audit rows and evidence packs showing when each location was discovered and reviewed, and apply structured-data remediation modes (mask, vault, strip) to reduce exposure. It does not alter source attachments or documents, and its output is technical evidence supporting controls, not proof of legal compliance.
Educational information, not legal advice. The supplied snapshot is dated August 25, 2026; confirm current law, applicability, exceptions, official status, and reporting decisions with qualified counsel and the relevant authority.