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If you read the news about a national United States data privacy law and wonder whether it has anything to do with managed services, it does. The intersection of data privacy, security, and IT management, has never been as fused as it is today and MSPs had better take warning and be prepared for what is coming.
US GDPR
We have written extensively over the years about the steady march towards indirect regulation of MSPs. A "US GDPR" law would certainly meet that criterion. The US Senate Commerce Committee is preparing to introduce such a privacy law and its impact on MSPs could be significant.
MSPs won't likely be regulated directly, but the impact of such a law on customers would inevitably spill over to the MSP managing that IT infrastructure and data on behalf of the customer.