GDPR USA? 'A year ago, hell no ... More people are open to it now' -- House Rep says EU-like law may be mulled

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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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