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It's Time For An American (Data Protection) Revolution, Mark Peasley

Akron Law Review

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation is the most comprehensive, far-reaching, and forward-thinking piece of legislation to be passed in recent history. The GDPR will set the European Union far ahead of the United States when it comes to protecting personal information, but fear not; many of the GDPR’s requirements reach across the Atlantic and will offer a trickle-down benefit to United States citizens as entities move towards compliance. However, this is only an unintended benefit of the GDPR. Currently, the United States takes a piecemeal approach to data protection that focuses on the type of information stored, which …