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Cross-Border Data Flows, The Gdpr, And Data Governance, W. Gregory Voss
Cross-Border Data Flows, The Gdpr, And Data Governance, W. Gregory Voss
Washington International Law Journal
Today, cross-border data flows are an important component of international trade and an element of digital service models. However, they are impeded by restrictions on cross-border personal data transfers and data localization legislation. This Article focuses primarily on these complexities and on the impact of the new European Union (“EU”) legislation on personal data protection—the GDPR. First, this Article introduces its discussion of these flows by placing them in their economic and geopolitical setting, including a discussion of the results of a lack of international harmonization of law in the area. In this framework, rule overlap and rival standards are …