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The USA is special in that there is no national law against the commercial exploitation of personal information. There is some state level legislation, but that

The USA is special in that there is no national law against the commercial exploitation of personal information. There is some state level legislation, but that can't help very much for this sort of thing.

kube-system 5y ago
No, the EU is special in that it does. The US is like most of the rest of the world.
- pimterry 5y ago
  It looks like a surprisingly large number of countries actually have national GDPR-like laws either in place now or planned soon. For example: * Brazil: https://iapp.org/news/a/an-overview-of-brazils-lgpd/ https://iapp.org/news/a/an-overview-of-brazils-lgpd/ * Canada: https://www.globalcompliancenews.com/2020/12/24/canada-watch-out-gdpr-canada-proposes-strict-new-privacy-law-framework-backed-by-significant-fines02122020/ https://www.globalcompliancenews.com/2020/12/24/canada-watch... * India: https://hbr.org/2019/12/how-india-plans-to-protect-consumer-data https://hbr.org/2019/12/how-india-plans-to-protect-consumer-... * China: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=47e4d6ec-f5fe-40a2-92ae-aeb3d8cb88d2 https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=47e4d6ec-f5fe... * Indonesia: https://www.dataguidance.com/notes/indonesia-data-protection-overview https://www.dataguidance.com/notes/indonesia-data-protection... * Japan: https://auth0.com/blog/the-new-japanese-privacy-law-what-businesses-need-to-know/ https://auth0.com/blog/the-new-japanese-privacy-law-what-bus... None are exactly the same, but each includes many similar constraints to the GDPR, notably for the GP's point: no processing of personal data without consent. Together with the EU, those easily cover more than 50% of the global population. I wouldn't be surprised if the US made an attempt at something similar soon. If not it feels like another area (see also: socialized healthcare, gun control, the metric system) where US norms could end up out of step with the rest of the developed world.

kube-system 5y ago

No, the EU is special in that it does. The US is like most of the rest of the world.

pimterry 5y ago
It looks like a surprisingly large number of countries actually have national GDPR-like laws either in place now or planned soon. For example: * Brazil: https://iapp.org/news/a/an-overview-of-brazils-lgpd/ https://iapp.org/news/a/an-overview-of-brazils-lgpd/ * Canada: https://www.globalcompliancenews.com/2020/12/24/canada-watch-out-gdpr-canada-proposes-strict-new-privacy-law-framework-backed-by-significant-fines02122020/ https://www.globalcompliancenews.com/2020/12/24/canada-watch... * India: https://hbr.org/2019/12/how-india-plans-to-protect-consumer-data https://hbr.org/2019/12/how-india-plans-to-protect-consumer-... * China: https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=47e4d6ec-f5fe-40a2-92ae-aeb3d8cb88d2 https://www.lexology.com/library/detail.aspx?g=47e4d6ec-f5fe... * Indonesia: https://www.dataguidance.com/notes/indonesia-data-protection-overview https://www.dataguidance.com/notes/indonesia-data-protection... * Japan: https://auth0.com/blog/the-new-japanese-privacy-law-what-businesses-need-to-know/ https://auth0.com/blog/the-new-japanese-privacy-law-what-bus... None are exactly the same, but each includes many similar constraints to the GDPR, notably for the GP's point: no processing of personal data without consent. Together with the EU, those easily cover more than 50% of the global population. I wouldn't be surprised if the US made an attempt at something similar soon. If not it feels like another area (see also: socialized healthcare, gun control, the metric system) where US norms could end up out of step with the rest of the developed world.