CS406: Information Security

The creation and adoption of a new US privacy law similar to GDPR could positively impact the country from various aspects to include economically, politically, and culturally.

From an economic perspective, implementing new and updated privacy law in the US not only protects our consumers but our US based corporations. When we think of implementing new US privacy law similar to GDPR we have to implement it both from a consumer and corporation perspective. Having a new federal privacy law rather than having each state create its own privacy law similar to CCPA would be a more common sense and efficient method to implementing new data privacy law in a digital world. Focusing on the corporate and economic perspective implementing new and updated privacy law is not a want it’s a critical need for the US. The US as an economic super power and having the largest economy in the world needs to align to global data protection standards such as GDPR. Aligning to global data protection standards will ensure the US maintains a competitive advantage in the global digital economy. As a country and having so many US based Technology companies integrating with global protection standard to include GDPR is an economic must.

From a political perspective, there are also positive impacts of implementing a new privacy law in the US similar to GDPR. Politically, it could be a good strategy to implement new privacy law similar to the EU as it would improve and maintain EU and US relations. The EU and the US are interconnected politically and economically as they heavily support the needs of each other. Data privacy in the digital world and economy should be no different than support each other’s Wars.

From a cultural perspective, the US is more than ready to adopt its own GDPR based privacy policy and CCPA is a perfect example of how consumers are in favor of stricter data privacy and security laws. GDPR sparked US consumers to demand a country and culture of digital and data privacy. US consumer have a shift in how and when US based organizations protect the data they collect, where it’s stored, and how it flows. The focus now in the US is protecting digital and data privacy as a legal imperative as protecting property or contracts. Similar to EU citizens/consumers our US citizens/consumers are now more than ready to treat privacy including digital privacy as a "Human Right".