The Co-Chairs of our Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation Practice Group, Ahmed Baladi (Paris) and Alexander Southwell (New York), and partner Cassandra Gaedt-Sheckter (Palo Alto), discuss how GDPR has impacted U.S. laws and companies. They examine the contrasts between U.S. privacy laws and GDPR in Europe, provide an overview of enforcement actions in the U.S., particularly California, and review the challenges companies face when dealing with global data privacy laws.