Thread · 3 tweets · 15 Oct 2019

I return to this every time someone tells me that "the GDPR is a European thing, it wouldn't work with Americans" as if Americans were some kind of pain-relishing morons who just loved having their autonomy abused by unknown data brokers. Much of the GDPR comes from the US. 🇪🇺🇺🇸

Many are - rightly - advocating for a federal privacy act to avoid state-by-state madness. But digital companies are global companies now, thinking at the federal level is thinking small. What would help business most is a global standard. It's time to port GDPR over to US law.

As @gabrielazanfir shows there, this would just be the return home of a number of American inventions. There's a tendency in the US to think that everything Americans did and loved pre-Reagan is un-American. It's more than time to unlearn that.