The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation–better known as GDPR–stipulates tight controls for companies handling the consumer data of EU residents. U.S. companies, already challenged by these rules, are now seeing similar controls crop up in the United States, with California leading the way in privacy legislation. RSM’s Alain Marcuse, director, security, privacy and risk, explores what middle market companies should be watching on the U.S. data privacy front, in the February issue of The Real Economy.



