U.S. citizens have a long way to go before seeing similar privacy regulations from the EU. The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation goes into effect on Friday. Despite the outrage, privacy experts say, not much has or will immediately change when it comes to how companies that profit from trading in consumer data do business. The fallout of the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal, coupled with the introduction of GDPR in Europe, is pushing into place some new privacy safeguards for US citizens, experts say.
Source: https://threatpost.com/what-will-gdprs-impact-be-on-u-s-consumer-privacy/132137/