ANALYSIS: GDPR Compliance Provides Answer Key for Calif., Va.

Compliance lawyers don’t generally have the time or the inclination to reinvent the wheel. So it’s no real surprise that respondents to the 2021 Bloomberg Law GDPR Compliance Survey indicated overwhelmingly that work done to satisfy one comprehensive privacy regime would carry over to the development of another compliance program.

Three years after the effective date for Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation, the current global privacy landscape spans Brazil to New Zealand, as well as California to Virginia. In the U.S., the lack of a federal, comprehensive consumer privacy-oriented law has left states to design their own ...