- Europe has strong data privacy laws to protect citizens from unanticipated uses of data
collected during normal commercial transactions (i.e. spam)
- U.S. has strong data privacy laws to protect citizens from unanticipated uses of data
collected by the U.S. government (remember Vietnam!)
- U.S. has strong consumer protection laws that arguably cover privacy concerns in the
commercial sector
- The EU plans to enforce their laws
- in cyberspace
- across borders (i.e. into the U.S.)
