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

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.