Question

Currently, there are no global, agreed-upon laws regarding hacking, either for victim or perpetrator. This means that each country is acting on its own to enforce what it thinks are the best laws for punishing cyber criminals and protecting its citizens. Compare how cybersecurity laws in the United States differ from those in other countries, and describe the differences while noting your opinion as to whether or not you think that they are effective.

Answer 1

Currently, there are no global, agreed-upon laws regarding hacking, either for victim or perpetrator. This means that each country is acting on its own to enforce what it thinks are the best laws for punishing cyber criminals and protecting its citizens. But when we see the laws its different of what US has compared to other countries. The EU's new GDPR or the General Data Protection Regulation are affecting all the business with the European Union from everywhere. For the last 20 years the data protection and privacy policy was very bad in Europe for which Europe had to pay a huge amount of fine. But after the GDPR came in to action they are focusing on data privacy laws and also a much stricter controls on data and also their transfer request. When we look into US policy it is much different than the others. Like the US is having the HIPAA or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act which is responsible for the protection of health related information. Secondly there is GLB Act or The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act which is responsible for securing the personal information in a financial institution. Thirdly there is the FISMA or the Federal Information Security Management Act which is responsible to have a proper document for the information security and all. This are the few but there are many such acts which are responsible for the individual security of the data. Comparing this security I feel that the US policy are more secured and also they have properly defined it for each individual sector and hence there won’t be any problem regarding it.