Democrats and the Republicans introduced a number of proposed bills in 2019 designed to create a federal privacy law. But will Congress be able to achieve a compromise in 2020?
Reece Hirsch, a partner who heads the privacy practice at the law firm Morgan, Lewis and Bockius, says that while there is an increased interest in comprehensive federal privacy legislation in the wake of the passage of the California Consumer Privacy Act, Congress appears very far from reaching a consensus.
