Since the introduction of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and its expansive reach, U.S. businesses have been faced with comprehensive data protection and privacy considerations like never before. As you may know, there were no such laws (federal or state) in the United States at that time, and U.S. businesses questioned the GDPR's reach and applicability. Well, since then, U.S. states took it upon themselves to bring a wave of new data protection legislation, forcing U.S. businesses to consider the topic yet again (and this time it's in their backyard).