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When it comes to data protection laws, the United States has long lagged behind Europe, whose General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in 2018 as the gold standard in data protection.
Also, in 2018, California passed the California Privacy Protection Act, further expanding it to the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) in 2020. In August 2022, a new federal bill — the American Data Privacy and Protection Act (ADPPA) — passed Congress with a landslide 53-2 vote. The proposed federal law is similar to the CPRA but contains a few key differences that have Californian data privacy advocates concerned.
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