跨境数据流动治理中的韩国路径与欧盟路径

The Governance of Cross-Border Data Flows:A Comparative Study of South Korea and the European Union

跨境数据流动治理的概念虽然还有待进一步梳理,但跨境数据流动本身已然经历了漫长的实践。韩国在战后经济腾飞的过程中,有着对跨境数据流动治理的巨大需求,也在不断向以欧盟为主的发达国家借鉴经验的过程中,寻找到了一条符合自身特点的路径,并以《个人信息保护法案》为基础,不断加速更新迭代规制版本,以适应时代需要。

The governance of cross-border data flows,in spite of its lack of unified definition as a concept,has already had a long history in practice. During the post-war economic take-off of South Korea,there emerged a huge demand of governing cross-border data flows. South Korea has been learning lessons and experiences from the EU-led developed nations, in pursuit of a mode of governance with its own national characteristics. It made the Personal Information Protection Act,on the basis of which it updated its regulations on a regular basis,so as to adjust to the needs of latest development.