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>The United States does not have a consumer privacy law like the General Data Protection Regulation. But after years of pushing for similar legislation, privacy
by IBM 9y ago
>The United States does not have a consumer privacy law like the General Data Protection Regulation. But after years of pushing for similar legislation, privacy groups said that recent events were giving them new momentum — and they were looking to Europe for inspiration.
>“With the new European law, regulators for the first time have real enforcement tools,” said Jeffrey Chester, the executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a nonprofit group in Washington. “We now have a way to hold these companies accountable.”
I'm super excited about the prospect of GDPR in America.
- ttul 9y agoEffectively, you will have it, because it applies to European residents, and it is difficult for companies to know for sure that you aren’t a European resident.
- madez 9y agoWell, not so much if the companies are really willing to. They can block traffic coming from European IP addresses and require a legal document saying that the customer is not European.
- pandler 9y agoSo, for all intents and purposes, shut themselves out of the European market?
- madez 9y agoYes. "Obey our rules or stay out of our market" seems like a reasonable thing.
- pimmen 9y agoThey can if they are willing to, but I doubt many companies are willing to. "This is a tough one; spend a year rebuilding our backend and terms of services or shut ourselves out from a market of almost 500 million people (not including the UK) probably forever?"