Security News > 2021 > January > Tech Giants Hope for US Data Privacy Law

"I think the stars are better aligned than ever in the past," Keith Enright, Google's chief data privacy office, told a discussion Tuesday on trust and privacy.

The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation, which has applied since May 2018, has largely contributed to making consumers aware of the issues related to the data that they submit to large digital platforms on a daily basis.

This European data rights charter influenced California, which has now had the California Consumer Privacy Act for over a year.

"There are more than 100 national data privacy laws in the world," said Anne Toth, director of Amazon's Alexa Trust.

"The laws must be interoperable," added Damien Kieran, director of data privacy at Twitter.

Silicon Valley has long been close to elected Democrats, but the relationship has deteriorated since the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and the scandal of Cambridge Analytica, a British firm that hijacked the personal data of tens of millions of Facebook users for political propaganda purposes.

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