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Comment: New US foreign-adversary data protection law represents shift in emphasis, view of data transfers

By Mike Swift ( June 17, 2024, 23:25 GMT | Comment) -- The US Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Adversaries Act represents a shift toward data protection being seen as not just a consumer protection issue, but a national security one as well. PADFA reflects the new geopolitical reality that personal data won’t just be the oil of the 21st Century — it could often comprise the bullets, as well.For the first quarter century of the commercial Internet, data privacy has generally been regulated as an individual consumer-protection issue, even as the US has consistently backed the view that personal data should be unfettered in its ability to cross international borders....

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