04/03/2025
Author: Philipp E. Fischer
Programme: Doctoral Programme in Information and Knowledge Society
Idioma: English
Supervision: Miquel Peguera
Faculty / Institute: Doctoral School UOC
Subjects: Communications
Key words: Privacy, Data processing activities, Digital economy, National, supranational, international data protection laws, General data protection regulation
Area of knowledge: Information and Knowledge Society
Abstract:
Global capabilities of interlinked networks have freed data processing activities from their spatial limitations. This led to an increase in transborder flows of personal data (“TFPD”). Innovative forms of technology influence scenarios using personal data and affect data subjects. TFPD therefore have various analytical dimensions, which are technological, economical, sociological, political, and legal. There are to date around 200 national data protection laws. However, only a few of them achieve a comprehensive and mature state. As a result, current data protection laws at the national, supranational, and international level result in a worldwide regulatory mosaic. This complicates the lawful behavior of multinational enterprises and can have negative consequences for the progress of the globally operating digital economy. This doctoral thesis, necessarily including an interdisciplinary approach, addresses the legal issue of how to harmonize this mosaic to an extent striving for the highest possible level of uniformity in international law.