Governments around the world now use our personal information to pose threats over each other. The actual or potential control that a foreign country has over domestic personal data highly impact geopolitical relations, but also cross-border business flows and compliance requirements. What’s happening around Huawei, the TikTok ban or Wechat are the best known examples of the weaponization of personal data, that is unlikely to stop anytime soon.
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