US lawmakers and lobbyists are seeking to take what they see as the best parts of the EU 's General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) and create their own version . She added there is broad support for a common framework like GDPR that "harmonizes" privacy rules across different regions. It follows calls for " comprehensive privacy legislation " from Mark Cuban , Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai , the founders of Facebook , Apple and Google . While US states such as California have already created legislation similar to it , opinion is divided about whether federal laws , creating a single national standard , should replace them .
US lawmakers and lobbyists are seeking to take what they see as the best parts of the EU 's General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) and create their own version . It follows calls for " comprehensive privacy legislation " from Mark Cuban , Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai , the founders of Facebook , Apple and Google . While US states such as California have already created legislation similar to it , opinion is divided about whether federal laws , creating a single national standard , should replace them .