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Comment: The GDPR resonates globally, perhaps even more outside Europe than in it

From Ulaanbaatar to Muscat and from Quito to Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, the privacy lexicon developed by the drafters of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation in Brussels has resoundingly echoed through a forest of new data protection laws that now nearly blanket the globe.
If the GDPR revolutionized data protection

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Mike Swift

Chief Global Digital Risk Correspondent


Mike Swift is an award-winning journalist who has been at the forefront of covering data, privacy and cybersecurity regulatory news for more than a decade. As the Chief Global Digital Risk Correspondent for MLex, in addition to reporting, he coordinates MLex’s worldwide coverage in the practice area. Formerly chief Internet reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and SiliconValley.com, Mike has covered Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, Twitter and other tech companies and has closely tracked technology and regulatory trends in Silicon Valley. He has wide ranging expertise from the business of professional sports to computer-assisted reporting. A former John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, he is a graduate of Colby College.

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