Academics say federal privacy legislation must incorporate lessons learned from CCPA, GDPR

California’s privacy law and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation are useful starting points for U.S. lawmakers to draw from when drafting a national privacy law, academics focused on privacy research say, but there are negatives from both of the standards that should be considered when crafting new legislation.

“California’s law can be understood as model that probably won’t directly work” in the future, said Jane Bambauer, law professor at the University of Arizona, during a webinar this week...