Many in the privacy world have backed interoperability as the best way forward for privacy protections in global data flows, while others “continue to pursue the ideal of a global privacy standard,” writes Hunton & Williams’ Markus Heyder, “But the prospect of achieving such an international standard anytime soon seems low.” That said, more practical, near-term solutions are needed, “and—who knows—such near-term solutions may ultimately lead to increased global harmonization in the field,” he adds. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Heyder, the vice president and senior policy counselor at Hunton & Williams’ Centre for Information Policy Leadership, discusses why it’s interoperability that will provide “such a near-term, practical solution.”
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