Re: Let's just hire every person in Europe to be a bureaucrat
The irony of your comment is that the U.S. doesn't have a federal privacy law. And the GDPR aimed to reduce regulations and regulators.
So each of the States are slowly passing their own laws, with a myriad of regulators.
Add to that, the US has industry specific privacy regulators with different rules etc.
If anything, one of the things GDPR did was aim to standardise things by making it a regulation rather than a directive (didn't work in its entirety, but still better than it was before) and by having things like the one stop shop where the regulators across Europe operate in tandem
If anything, Brexit just adds another regulator. The more we depart from the GDPR and European case law, the more bureaucrats have to do, and the more lawyers and consultants get paid to explain the differences between those regulations.
The US actually passing a standardised federal privacy law might be one of the few things which is partisan in the States as they are recognising they can't go on with each state/industry having their own rules.
Just goes to show that rants like yours, which might resonate with the man in the pub 6 pints in who knows nothing about legal regimes, are actually the complete opposite of what you are making out.
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