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The EU General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act took different paths to come into existence, but as Greenberg Traurig Co-Chair, U.S. Data, Privacy & Cybersecurity David Zetoony writes, the two bills are still related. Zetoony looks back at the creation of the bills, and explains that when looking at future privacy laws, “we should take a step back and remember the remarkably different lineage of the GDPR and the CCPA, and consider whether the best process for creating good privacy legislation lies somewhere between those two regimes.”

Continue reading the full article, which originally appeared on the IAPP’s Privacy Perspectives blog.

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