As US privacy needs reform, comprehensive law behind Congressional chokepoints

The back burner is good resting place to weather concurrent seasons of obstruction and partisan shutdowns. Privacy legislation will improbably pass the federal choke points in 2019. Some will gamble on well-oiled weasles, adding “privacy” to some unread, 3-foot-thick, omnibus partisan legislation, wasting advocacy dollars on PACs. When the President won’t sign another omnibus bill, meh, what can be done? Many won’t gamble at all, resorting to State-borne solutions autonomous from D.C. dysfunction.  Their data security and family privacy interests just won’t wait.

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GDPR can be the bottom up solution fit for a top-down governing world

GDPR is not simple checklist compliance you can just shove onto an irritable HR corporate bureaucrat. Companies can automate up to 70% of processes but now they have to really know the differences between data mapping and data inventory.  They have to mind consumer wishes when it comes to data removal demands.  They have to comply with global regulators or face real penalties. They have to grow and continually improve privacy.

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