“Like the Catholic Church’s Congregation of the Index of 1616, which outlawed the movement of the Earth around the Sun, so too will the European Parliament restrict transborder data flows by legislative fiat this week,” writes Omer Tene, IAPP VP of Research and Education. “Of course,” he adds, “the flow of data across borders will not cease or even diminish.” In this Privacy Perspectives post, Tene contends that legislation—a slow-moving evolutionary process—will fail to keep up with the faster-moving technological revolution, as it has in the past.
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