EU’s Extensive Rulemaking Spurs US Regulators to Act, Say Former Agency Division Heads

The European Union’s regulatory agenda is influencing U.S regulators to take proactive measures in areas such as artificial intelligence, according to former agency and division heads. “There’s a natural competition among regulators to try to be the first,” comments Maneesha Mithal, previous leader of the Federal Trade Commission’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection and current partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. The EU’s extensive rule-making has seemingly instigated this rush among U.S regulators to stay ahead, although the full scope of the influence is not fully clear from the limited availability of the original report at The National Law Journal.