SETTING A PRECEDENT. In the wake of Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal, consumer privacy is getting a lot more attention, even though U.S. legislators have not yet done much to regulate the industry. California's Consumer Privacy Act is largely considered one of the nation's toughest laws on data privacy, if not the toughest law, and it could inspire other states or Congress to take similar action. “I think it’s going to set the standard across the country that legislatures... will look to adopt in their own states,” state Sen. Bob Hertzberg (D) told The Washington Post.
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