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International Cybersecurity Compliance Concerns

By Steven Rubin and Stephen Milne

Compared with the rest of the world, the United States has historically been a more open framework when dealing with information. Social media has made even the most mundane and possibly personal pieces of data available to many with a press of a finger. Such an open relinquishment of private information is almost assumed, and has become part of the American culture. Those who think about how easy it is to access data understand how their own data has become part of the searchable cyberspace.

The European culture and laws are different. Privacy rights are assumed, information confidentiality is maintained, and the concept of the United States “discovery” is scorned. There is a concern that European sensitive data should stay outside of the United States due to the protection of such data in the country not being sufficiently strong. It is therefore not a surprise that the laws in the United States and in Europe are inconsistent when it comes to cybersecurity.

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