In-house counsel should make compliance with laws like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and the California Consumer Privacy Act a top priority, a panel at the 2019 Corporate Counsel Symposium in Philadelphia said Tuesday.

Dr. Jürgen Hartung, a partner at Oppenhoff & Partner in Cologne, Germany, who joined the conference via telephone, said Japan has a new data privacy law and others are being worked out across the globe. He said while those laws are not carbon copies of the GDPR, the GDPR is serving as a template.

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