Is it time for US to regulate privacy?
n May, the European Union will begin to enforce a body of laws that it calls the General Data Protection Regulation. Over time, European nations had created their own agencies and limits on the excesses of the tech companies.
But this forthcoming regime creates a single standard for the entirety of the EU—a massive and largely laudatory effort to force the tech companies to clearly explain how they intend to use the personal information that they collect. It gives citizens greater powers to restrict the exploitation of data, including the right to erase data.
The time has arrived for the United States to create its own regulatory infrastructure, designed to accord with our own values and traditions—a Data Protection Authority.
