GDPR Compliance: US Companies Following EU Standards
Despite the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) being a European Union regulation on data protection, increasing numbers of major US companies are also starting to follow the GDPRs more stringent privacy standards. When the Cambridge Analytica scandal dominated international headlines, it was clear that data protection would no longer be considered an abstract legal theorem. This article examines why GDPR compliance US-side is catching on and how the future of data protection standards is likely to develop.