Before COVID-19 disrupted things, 70 percent of legal professionals held it “likely” or “very likely” that a federal privacy regulation could be passed in 2020, but even aside from the health crisis, there are obstacles to that happening.
Christopher Ballod of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith argues that the calendar already worked against it: politicians are reluctant to come across as “tough on business” during an election year. He notes that his clients are not holding their breath waiting for a national unified standard, but instead focusing on how to comply with the developing patchwork. Matthew Miller of Consilio says that achieving compliance with those laws may not be as arduous as it sounds. “In most senses, they are overlapping duties or obligations placed upon a corporation by the different states.”