Pelosi Flags California’s Concerns With National Privacy Bill

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) says she’s working to address California’s concerns with a bipartisan bill that would give American consumers cross-sector data privacy protections.

The American Data Protection and Privacy Act (H.R. 8152) has faced pushback from California lawmakers who worry it may undermine their state law. The California Privacy Protection Agency, tasked with enforcing the state law, and Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) also have voiced concern with the federal privacy proposal.

Pelosi cited a new proposal governing children’s digital data that cleared the state legislature this week as another example of California’s landmark protections.

“With so much innovation ...