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- Title
Data Laws Around the Globe – Insights, Frictions and Opportunities. Highlights from the African Data Protection Laws Conference in Accra, Ghana, 13-15 September 2022 and Comparative Data Law Conference in Munich, Germany, 7-8 December 2023.
- Authors
Spirkl, Clemens
- Abstract
With sheer petabytes of data being transferred, re-used, and analysed daily on a global scale, data sharing ecosystems worldwide – bearing economic and societal benefits at the same time – have become hyper-complex. Lawmakers and enforcement agencies have to match the speed of the 'moving target' data-related regulation and cope with the challenge of not only sticking to a domestic view, but (by design) also take account of the international and comparative effects of their respective policies. Globally, we see processes of convergence and divergence alike. Taking it therefore a step further: Are we already on the verge of a truly Global Data Law or are competing legal regimes rather bound to exacerbate the geopolitical claims to digital sovereignty? This two-fold report presents the findings of two conferences which examined the issues arising from this question. The conferences featured distinguished experts from multi-disciplinary legal backgrounds on data policy and law. While the first conference in Accra, Ghana, was devoted to data protection architectures and cultures on the African continent, the second – in Munich, Germany – provided holistic insights into comparative research and highlighted the interdependencies of data (protection) law regimes worldwide.
- Subjects
ACCRA (Ghana); MUNICH (Germany); DATA protection; COMPARATIVE law; FRICTION; INFORMATION sharing; CONFERENCES &; conventions; SPEED limits
- Publication
GRUR International: Journal of European & International IP Law, 2024, Vol 73, Issue 9, p865
- ISSN
2632-8550
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/grurint/ikae093