CCPA, SHIELD Act to take back seat during coronavirus pandemic?
With state attorneys general now fixated on “stay at home” directives amid the coronavirus pandemic, oversight of data privacy regulation may dip. But consumers—and the plaintiffs’ bar—are still watching.
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