California data privacy law creates complications beyond GDPR compliance
By 
Joe Mont2018-07-23T14:45:00
To consider California’s new Consumer Privacy Act a locally ported version of the EU’s GDPR regime may be understating the full scope of the newly enacted approach to data privacy.
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