With the recent introduction of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (or GDPR), it has become obvious that other nations, and particularly the US, have to take a step to introduce legislation that will regulate, monitor and protect consumers. Abuses such as the one unveiled a few weeks ago by Cambridge Analytica only further the idea that legislators need to move quickly and even if there are many issues with GDPR, at least Europe is taking a pro-active step.
Here is HBR’s take on how the US should proceed: HBR’s The U.S. Needs a New Paradigm for Data Governance