The UK is discussing a data protection reform that would distance its regime from the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Meanwhile, the US has been working on an alternative standard for international data flows. We discuss these developments and how GDPR enforcement trends are influencing the global conversation on data protection with Gabriela Zanfir-Fortuna, Vice President for Global Privacy at the Future of Privacy Forum, and Rafi Azim-Khan, Head of Data Privacy at Pillsbury Law.