To hear some analysts and compliance experts describe it, California’s new Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 is “essentially GDPR-lite,” a scaled back version of the Europeans tough, new data privacy protections.
In many respects, the General Data Protection Regulation is, on the surface, a more complicated bit of legislation, and one with more moving parts to consider within its 99 Articles. By comparison, California’s law does, indeed, seem far more streamlined.
