These broad generalizations show up in a variety of domains related to
technology regulation. European regulators, for example, in recent decades
have primarily focused on protecting consumers from abuse of their privacy
rights by private corporations, as exempliﬁed by the EU GDPR, which
establishes a comprehensive framework for consumer privacy. In the United
States, there is no such comprehensive framework; instead, privacy protections
are embedded in a variety of sector-speciﬁc laws and regulations, such as the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Fair
Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), which govern health- and credit-related data,
respectively. In addition, Europeans have always been more willing to regulate
speech than Americans; many European countries enacted laws banning certain
forms of hate speech (e.g., publication of Nazi propaganda and symbols) well
before the rise of the Internet, in contrast to the United States where such speech
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