The old joke goes, “The opposite of pro is con, so the opposite of progress is Congress.” Getting laws proposed and passed can be difficult even in a more relaxed political climate, but the present state of the US Congress makes most new legislation, regardless of content, a difficult sell. That is one of the challenges that government advisers from the cybersecurity industry face when urging politicians to suggest and pass federal data privacy laws. Other obstacles include inconsistent data privacy laws in some US states.
It’s long past time for the United States to adopt the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). GDPR is a set of stringent rules that govern how EU residents’ data is handled, sold, and stored. GDPR protects consumers’ privacy and security rights by imposing fines on companies that fail to comply.
In conversation with Wade Barisoff of the cybersecurity firm Fortra (Opens in a new window) last week about the current state of data privacy protections in the United States. Barisoff emphasized the importance of federal data privacy regulations, citing the European Union’s GDPR as an effective example.
“GDPR was significant, not only because it was a unifying act that enshrined the rights of people and their digital identities to govern how their data could be handled,” Barisoff said, “but also because it was the first legislation with real tee
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