The duty of nations to protect citizens varies significantly, seen through North Korea's totalitarianism versus the EU's democratic unity. Digital technology complicates this landscape by blurring physical borders, forcing nations to adapt online. An area of concern is data privacy. The US lacks a regulation similar to the EU's GDPR, granting American tech giants an edge over data protection. While the US can choose to adhere to EU standards, the reliance on tech raises critical questions about data governance, especially in light of changing political dynamics, like the emergence of Trump 2.0.
It is a nation's first duty to protect its citizens from harm. A fine maxim, and one we can all agree on, even in these disagreeable times.
Now add technology, specifically the digital tech that simultaneously sucks all the affairs of nations and citizens into cyberspace while removing the physical and tangible borders that define us in the first place.
The best example of this is data privacy and protection. The US lacks an equivalent of Europe's General Data Protection Regulation, which still exists post-Brexit in the UK.
But American tech companies underlie the majority of the digital economy worldwide. Fortunately, American law is powerful enough that US companies can voluntarily abide by EU norms.
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