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federal privacy laws
Consistent with
its traditionally incrementalist approach to legislation,
the United States has a large number of narrowly-focused privacy
laws. This is in contrast to the trans-sectoral approach of
Europe and most of the rest of the industrialized world.
Whether the whole
adds up to sufficiently comprehensive privacy protection in
the US is in the eye of the beholder. (Most analysts would
say no.) It is clear that to understand completely US privacy
protections, one must look at the various federal pieces,
as well as at the matrix of state laws that adds to the national
protections.
Federal privacy
(and privacy-affecting) laws include:
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