Transborder data flow: legal persons in privacy protection legislation

In the last decade there has been a dramatic increase in the growth of internationally operated computer-communication systems. In these systems, in essentially a single continuous operation, data are transmitted from terminals to computers in networks ...

While technology makes transborder data flow (TBDF) faster and cheaper, the privacy, economic concerns, sovereignty and cultural 'imperialism' factors work in the opposite direction. Nations have enacted various regulations to control TBDF as well as ...

The expansion of the internet has brought with it a huge increase in the number of instances of personal information sent by businesses and governments from one jurisdiction to another. Concern arising out of Europe, in particular, over the adequacy of ...