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    Senator Kirsten Gillibrand calls for an EU-style Data Protection Agency

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    Daniel Cooper
    Daniel Cooper
    02.13.2020

    The US' data-protection regime is often regarded as lagging behind Europe, especially in an increasingly-digital world. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has a plan to fix that, and has issued a call to create a domestic privacy regulator that would close the gap between the US and other nations. In a post on Medium, the New Yorker senator said that she would introduce legislation to create a new Data Protection Agency.