New Trends of US Cross-border Data Security Regulation
The United States is upgrading its cross-border data security regulation on China,targeting sensitive data and trading activities with China as the regulatory goals,complying with the principle that national data security is higher than privacy protection,and mobilizing the coordinated implementation mechanism of multiple regulatory departments.The United States has launched a series of cross-border data security supervision measures against China,aiming to build and improve the cross-border data retrieval and blocking security supervision system,forming three major supervision pillars together with sensitive technology export control and foreign investment risk review.At the same time,it will shape a cross-border data flow circle with American regulatory rules as the core,further consolidate the US data hegemony,and strengthen the global competitiveness of digital technology companies.In the global cross-border data security regulation,critical sensitive data involving national security will become the focus of the game between major countries.Digital multinational companies,digital platforms,and data brokers will become important targets of regulation by major countries in the next step.Regulatory departments such as data protection agencies and national security departments will also become one of the main roles in regulating global cross-border data security.In his second term,Trump will pursue a tough and aggressive"America first+Protectionism"data policy,further boosting the hegemony of the United States in global data rule-making,implementing defensive unilateralism in data security against China,and competing for absolute control over the world's key data.
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