Abstract
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies not only to the territory of the European Union, but also to all information systems containing data of EU’s citizens around the world. Misusing or carelessly handling personal data bring fines of up to 20 million euros or 4% of the annual turnover of the offending company. This article analyzes the main trends in the global implementation of the GDPR. Authors considered and analyzed results of personal data protection measures in nineteen regions: The USA, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Kazakhstan, Nigeria, Russia, South Korea and Thailand, as well as the European Union and a handful of other. This allowed identifying a direct pattern between the global tightening of EU’s citizens personal data protection and the fragmentation of the global mediasphere into separate national segments. As a result of the study, the authors conclude that GDPR has finally slowed down the globalization of the online mediasphere, playing a main role in its regional fragmentation.
Highlights
Modern technologies allow to transmit information from one end of our planet to another in seconds, addressing it to billions of different recipients
Since distributing information through television and radio channels seems to be quite expensive, computer networks have become the true embodiment of modern ideas about the freedom of information exchange
The negative consequences of General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) implementation become increasingly obvious as global data-intensive technologies become ubiquitous.One of the first victims of the GDPR implementation became the online mediasphere
Summary
Modern technologies allow to transmit information from one end of our planet to another in seconds, addressing it to billions of different recipients. Due to the absence of the need to distribute physical media, publishers could avoid the costs that entailed the export of media abroad or the rental of local facilities for their production[1]. All this created optimal conditions for the mediasphere globalization. The general trend is the desireto prevent the spread of citizen’s personal data beyond geographic boundaries of its state of origin This inevitably creates legal problems for the functioning of global information systems [2,3,4]. The negative consequences of GDPR implementation become increasingly obvious as global data-intensive technologies become ubiquitous.One of the first victims of the GDPR implementation became the online mediasphere
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