Effectiveness --- What is the effectiveness of these national regulations for data protection! Lets take this example. Let's say I'm a citizen of X country which happens to have really good laws for protecting my personal data. However, in the past 10 years (this is for real) I've been a victim of Giant data breaches in Yahoo, Linkedin, Facebook (for these I know) and probably to many more similar companies - where I have/had accounts. Our personal data is not a national thing/domain anymore....for more than 10 years all of our data is an international trading asset.

Source author: Vladimir Nikolov vladimir984@yahoo.com