GDPR and CCPA Start to Bare Teeth as Privacy Protection Goes Global

摘要

In the past two years, US companies have been forced to comply with sweeping new requirements to safeguard individuals' personal data imposed by the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). In a digitally connected world, where data flows across continents in the blink of an eye, protecting citizens' data privacy has become integrated in most businesses' crucial operations. It wasn't long ago that United States companies saw privacy as a European obsession that should be better left to private companies to manage. Now tech giants are clamouring for more regulation - even on the US federal level - to ensure consistent application of stringent privacy rules.