Top executives from Facebook, Google and Apple heaped praise on Europe’s revamped data protection standards Wednesday, just as these companies face ever tighter scrutiny over privacy and the prospect of similar restrictions in the United States. [...]
Noah Phillips, a U.S. Federal Trade Commissioner, acknowledged that the onset of Europe’s new privacy standards had triggered a debate about privacy in the United States. “GDPR has certainly had an impact on the national conversation in the U.S.,” he told POLITICO.[...]
Beyond Europe’s revamped privacy rules, which came into force at the end of May, countries from Brazil to Japan have similarly proposed new data protection standards, while U.S. lawmakers — after a series of setbacks — are again starting to consider federal rules.
Amid this privacy push, some tech companies are quickly changing their tune, with some advocates warning that these firms are now in favor of new legislation so that they can lobby to water it down as much as possible.
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