The chief legal officer of Cisco Systems Inc. is the latest Silicon Valley executive to express support for a U.S. version of the General Data Protection Regulation.

In an interview with Financial Times, Cisco’s longtime chief legal officer Mark Chandler backed the idea of an Americanized GDPR, a May 2018 European Union regulation aimed at protecting people’s rights over their personal data’s collection and use. Apple chief legal officer Tim Cook previously praised the GDPR at a privacy conference in Brussels and called upon other regulators to follow Europe’s lead.

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