The 3-year-old law governs how and what companies can do with data they collect on residents of the EU.
A common privacy framework would help businesses, Pichai said during an interview at the WSJ Tech Live conference.
“I would really like to see a federal privacy standard in the US,” he said.
“I’m worried about a patchwork of regulations in states that adds a lot of complexity.”
Google is one of thelargest collectors of personal dataon the web.
The company records your searches and the videos you watch on its YouTube service.
It also logs where you go through its Google Maps app.
