Extract from David Horrigan’s article “Protective Orders in United States e-Discovery: A Panacea for Privacy?”
Editor’s Note: This article was first published by Artificial Lawyer.
Many privacy advocates around the world applauded when Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became effective in May 2018. The grand plan to harmonize and strengthen data privacy and data protection in the member states of the European Union and the European Economic Area was met with great fanfare and some trepidation.
It’s not just the Europeans. Stronger data privacy laws have spread across the world, including Brazil’s Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados Pessoais (LGPD), which became effective in September 2020 with enforcement beginning in August of 2021, and amendments to Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA) in 2021.
But what about the United States?
Despite a veritable cornucopia of US state and federal data privacy laws, the lack of a comprehensive federal data privacy law often leaves the US out of the discussion. US government data demands are cited often, but, as the UK’s Vodafone has reported for years, governments around the world demand data for law enforcement purposes.
