Book contents
- Transatlantic Jurisdictional Conflicts in Data Protection Law
- Transatlantic Jurisdictional Conflicts in Data Protection Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Author’s Note
- Table of Cases
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conceptual Approaches to Data Protection in the European Union and the United States
- 3 The European Union’s Obligations to Safeguard the Fundamental Right to Data Protection Extraterritorially
- 4 Limits That Public International Law Poses on the European Union Safeguarding the Fundamental Right to Data Protection Extraterritorially
- 5 Ways to Mitigate Problematic Jurisdictional Overreach
- 6 The Reach of European Union Data Protection Law in Transatlantic Data Transfers for Counterterrorism Purposes
- 7 Data Protection and the Free Flow of Information
- 8 Enabling Transatlantic Trade and Protecting Privacy through Cross-Border Data Transfer Agreements
- 9 The Normative External Effects of the European Union’s Exercise of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in Data Protection Law
- 10 Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
10 - Conclusion
Enduring Territoriality and Fundamental Rights
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 April 2023
- Transatlantic Jurisdictional Conflicts in Data Protection Law
- Transatlantic Jurisdictional Conflicts in Data Protection Law
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Author’s Note
- Table of Cases
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Conceptual Approaches to Data Protection in the European Union and the United States
- 3 The European Union’s Obligations to Safeguard the Fundamental Right to Data Protection Extraterritorially
- 4 Limits That Public International Law Poses on the European Union Safeguarding the Fundamental Right to Data Protection Extraterritorially
- 5 Ways to Mitigate Problematic Jurisdictional Overreach
- 6 The Reach of European Union Data Protection Law in Transatlantic Data Transfers for Counterterrorism Purposes
- 7 Data Protection and the Free Flow of Information
- 8 Enabling Transatlantic Trade and Protecting Privacy through Cross-Border Data Transfer Agreements
- 9 The Normative External Effects of the European Union’s Exercise of Extraterritorial Jurisdiction in Data Protection Law
- 10 Conclusion
- Select Bibliography
- Index
Summary
The EU’s actions show how the exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction by one actor (the EU) based on local approaches to human rights standards and specific values (privacy and the protection of personal data) could lead to the convergence of values and laws on the global stage. Likely directions are decreasing territorialism or broad interpretations of ‘territory’, increasing elevation of fundamental rights to the disadvantage of certain competing interests, and the EU acting to set a high global data protection norm, enabled by the fundamental right to data protection conditioning its exercise of extraterritorial jurisdiction. Convergence could be resisted. If, however, the EU’s reach were strong enough to avoid or counter resistance, this would ultimately lead to fewer conflicts in jurisdiction as global standards would converge and, even in the EU–US data privacy law interface, commonalities and shared approaches to rights protection would emerge.
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- Transatlantic Jurisdictional Conflicts in Data Protection LawFundamental Rights, Privacy and Extraterritoriality, pp. 254 - 262Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023