Americans Don't Like Taking Europe's Lead, But They Might Have To On Data Privacy

The year 2008 brought with it a turning tide in American politics. Barack Obama was elected the first African American president in history. Under Obama’s leadership, Democrats took both houses of Congress in what could only be seen as a rebuke of a decades-long conservative hegemony, launched by Ronald Reagan and crushed by George W. Bush’s largely unpopular Iraq War.

Yet some things stayed the same. Shortly after Obama took office, the new president made efforts to spearhead progressive reforms through congress -- the centerpiece of which was healthcare. While many applauded the Democratic effort to reshape America’s healthcare system in the mold of European social welfare models, others feared government involvement in such a private sphere of life. The spectacle brought back a recurring theme that has played an integral role in America’s politics since its founding -- a theme that argues the New World shouldn’t follow in the footsteps of the Old.

With regards to data privacy, though, the United States can and should follow Europe’s lead. As America grapples with data breach after data breach, its counterpart across the Atlantic has already constructed a global framework to ensure individual citizens a standard degree of privacy in its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which took effect in 2018.

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Americans Don't Like Taking Europe's Lead, But They Might Have To On Data Privacy

Americans Don't Like Taking Europe's Lead, But They Might Have To On Data Privacy

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