Title: Social Media Privacy Laws - FindLaw
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Content: There have been many other efforts to enact federal legislation to better address social media protections, but no national comprehensive social media privacy laws exist yet; there is no U.S. equivalent to the E.U. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Some states have taken measures to better protect social media privacy, with laws that usually fall into the following categories: Laws requiring implementation of security measures; Laws imposing liability and criminal punishment for hacking; and
Laws requiring notification for data breaches. For example, California law requires persons or businesses that conduct business in California to give consumers notice of a data breach in the "most expedient time possible." Right to be Forgotten Laws
In the E.U., the GDPR includes "right to be forgotten" provisions, which give individuals and corporations the right to request that their information be deleted from certain internet sites. The rationale behind these laws is that people should not be harmed by the disclosure of irrelevant or outdated information. The U.S. doesn't have right to be forgotten laws, but such laws overseas still impact U.S. based companies such as Google that operate internationally.