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For much of the history of privacy law and regulation throughout the world, the level and severity of these rules have been confined to the boundaries of the individual countries that created them. As digital data has evolved over the last generation to effortlessly cross geographic boundaries, new legal solutions are also evolving. Add to this equation the ability of mobile devices to physically and easily move personally sensitive data from one country to the next, the legal problems multiply exponentially.
What this potentially means is that a country that has minimal or even no data privacy protection laws may be subject to the data privacy laws of other nations that require a higher level of security.
Read the complete article at The Exponential Problems Created By Cross-Border Data Movement