Or merely close down the risk of a state-by-state data protection patchwork springing up to create new compliance headaches for business.
Though the F.T.C. and F.C.C. can investigate and punish some data-security breakdowns, and nearly every state has some form of notification law in place in the event of data theft, these patchwork measures have proved unable to slow the pace of breaches.
Decision made, Apple plowed ahead, building a product that relied on a patchwork of data from partners like TomTom, OpenStreetMap and other geo data brokers.
Security is further hampered by a patchwork of data protection laws and regulatory agencies, each with limited mandates.
Beyond that, US data privacy laws are patchwork.
Warner blamed much of the inaction to the patchwork of data breach laws that vary by state.
A big part of the issue is that the Canadian federal government does not track opioid overdoses nationally, resulting in a patchwork of data available by province that makes it impossible to get a coherent snapshot of the crisis.
It is assumed they all fit on a common tree, despite the fact that there is little or none support in such a patchwork of data for many inner nodes.
Although the metabolic effects outlined in this review represent a patchwork of data obtained with numerous fungi, the bottom line is still valid: In many cases, the output of a light effect is similar in different species; nevertheless, the regulatory mechanisms causing the respective effect are much less conserved.
GDPR will replace the current patchwork of national data protection laws, give data regulators greater powers to fine, make it easier for companies with a "one-stop-shop" for operating across the whole of the EU, and create a new pan-European data regulator called the European Data Protection Board.
