Law status
Verified comprehensive law
Yes (enacted, not yet in force) - Vermont Data Privacy and Online Surveillance Act
- Official name / citation
- 9 V.S.A. ch. 61A (Act No. 145)
- Status / effective date
- Enacted; effective January 1, 2028 per the enacted act text - NOT in force as of August 25, 2026
- Principal enforcer
- Vermont Attorney General
Direct attached-library attribution
0 cases · $0
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
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Other generally applicable PII law
In force now: Security Breach Notice Act, 9 V.S.A. § 2435 (effective January 1, 2007), within 9 V.S.A. ch. 62 - https://legislature.vermont.gov/statutes/section/09/062/02435
Public enforcement context
Tier 1
Blackbaud, Inc.
$49.5 million to the states; Vermont share stated as $3 million (Vermont co-led) · October 5, 2023
Vermont co-led the 50-AG Blackbaud settlement over the 2020 ransomware breach.
Legal basis: State consumer protection laws, data breach notification laws and HIPAA
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.