“While the protection of privacy constitutes by now a global concern, new technologies or methods of processing … may easily drive to despair any legislator who attempts to apply local jurisdiction approaches on personal data processing that … treats national borders as irrelevant,” write professor Paul De Hert and Vagelis Papakonstantinou. “Quite contrary to what is urgently needed,” they continue, “an entrenchment attitude may be identified even in data protection models devised today.” For example, the General Data Protection Regulation is intended to govern all data processing of EU citizens. But there are other models around the world, and regulatory frameworks are diverging. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, De Hert and Papakonstantinou propose one possible solution to what could otherwise be a “chronicle of a collision foretold.”
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