Alastair Mactaggart, the San Francisco real estate developer behind California’s sweeping data privacy law, said he’s confident the regulations will withstand any attacks by the telecommunications and tech lobbies in the new legislative session.

Mactaggart, speaking to The Recorder on Tuesday, said the California Consumer Privacy Act has ardent defenders among state legislators, including Sen. Robert Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, and Assembly privacy committee chairman Ed Chau, D-Monterey Park—the two lawmakers who shepherded the enabling bill to passage last year. The public, too, has had more time to adjust to, and accept, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation, he said.

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