https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/11/08/gdpr_usa_congressman/
By Shaun Nichols
The Register
8 Nov 2018
The rash of high-profile IT security breaches, data thefts, and other
hacks that have erupted over the last year or so may push US legislators
to consider laws similar to Europe's privacy-protecting GDPR.
This is according to Representative Will Hurd (R-TX), who told attendees
at the Aspen Cyber Summit in San Francisco today that revisiting the EU's
hard-line safeguards for personal information, activated in May, could be
on the agenda in America when a Democrat-controlled House begins its next
session in January. For the next two months, Republicans still hold that
side of Congress.
"One of the things we will be looking at is GDPR. Is it working, is it not
working, is it something that we may be moving to?" Hurd told attendees at
the cyber-shindig.
"A year ago, the answer would have been not 'no,' but 'hell no.' I think
more people are open to that now because of some of the breaches."
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