Operates a social platform, in Connecticut

Conn. Gen. Stat. sec. 42-471 · Read the law's page

• This binds any person in possession of another person's personal information (a Social Security number, driver's license or state identification card number, account number, credit or debit card number, passport number, alien registration number, health insurance identification number, or military identification information, combined with an identifier that associates it with the individual), except a state agency or political subdivision of the state.
• Safeguard the data, computer files and documents containing that personal information from misuse by third parties, and destroy, erase or make them unreadable before disposal.
• If you collect Social Security numbers in the course of business, create a privacy protection policy, published or publicly displayed, that protects their confidentiality, prohibits their unlawful disclosure and limits access to them.
• A financial institution whose safeguards comply with the standards under Section 501(b) of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act is deemed compliant with this section.
• There is no private right of action for a violation of this section. The Department of Consumer Protection may impose a civil penalty of up to $5,000 per violation after an administrative hearing, and a violation is treated as an unfair trade practice enforceable by the state rather than by a private plaintiff.

Conn. Gen. Stat. sec. 42-471a · Read the law's page

• This binds each employer, other than an agency or political subdivision of the state, and applies to employment applications it obtains and retains.
• Obtain and retain employment applications in a secure manner.
• Employ reasonable measures to destroy or make unreadable employment applications upon disposal; at a minimum, shred them or otherwise permanently destroy them in a secure setting.

Conn. Gen. Stat. sec. 42-901 · Read the law's page

• This is a safe harbor from punitive damages, not a duty: it is available to a 'covered entity', any business that accesses, maintains, communicates or processes personal or restricted information through a system, network or service located in or outside Connecticut, sued in tort for a failure to implement reasonable cybersecurity controls that resulted in a data breach.
• To claim it, have created, maintained and complied with a written cybersecurity program with administrative, technical and physical safeguards for personal and restricted information, at the time of the breach, designed to protect the information's security, confidentiality and integrity and scaled to the entity's size, complexity, activities, the sensitivity of the information, and the cost and availability of security tools.
• The program must conform to the current version of a named framework (the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST SP 800-171, NIST SP 800-53/53A, the FedRAMP Security Assessment Framework, the CIS Critical Security Controls, or the ISO/IEC 27000-series), or, for an entity already regulated under HIPAA, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Title V, FISMA or HITECH, conform to that regime, or comply with the PCI Data Security Standard together with another listed framework; conform to a revised version within six months of its publication.
• The safe harbor is unavailable where the failure to implement reasonable cybersecurity controls was the result of gross negligence or wilful or wanton conduct. It creates no duty to adopt a program of its own, does not limit the Attorney General's or the Commissioner of Consumer Protection's authority to seek other relief, and leaves undisturbed the class-action certification process and the state's breach-notification statute.

Conn. Gen. Stat. ch. 743jj (Public Act 23-56) · Read the law's page

• As a social media platform, honour a minor's request to unpublish or delete their account (effective July 1, 2024).
• If you are a controller offering services to known minors under 18, use reasonable care against heightened risk of harm, including a bar on processing their data for targeted advertising or sale, limits on certain profiling, and precise geolocation collection only where strictly necessary (effective October 1, 2024, amended effective July 1, 2026).

2026 Conn. Pub. Acts 26-55 (Sub. H.B. 5312, 2026 Gen. Assemb., Reg. Sess.) · Read the law's page

• If you knowingly disseminate a synthetically created intimate image intending to cause harm, an individual you harmed may sue you within two years of discovering the dissemination for an injunction and for damages, including punitive damages, plus costs and attorneys' fees.
• If you operate a covered platform under 47 U.S.C. Sec. 223a, set up a process letting a harmed individual or the Attorney General notify you of such an image and request its removal.
• Post a clear and conspicuous notice describing that removal process in plain language.
• On receiving a valid removal request, remove the image and make reasonable efforts to remove copies within forty-eight hours.
• Removing an image in good faith under this process shields you from liability for that removal.

Public Act No. 26-15, Sec. 39 (2026) · Read the law's page

• As an operator of a covered platform, do not show a user personalized algorithmic recommendations unless you use commercially reasonable and technically feasible methods to determine the user is not a minor under 18, or obtain verifiable parental consent for a minor.
• Do not send notifications to minors between 9:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m. without parental consent.
• Set protective defaults for minor accounts, including a one hour per day limit on algorithmic feeds.
• Delete age determination data.
• Make annual public disclosures.