Local Privacy Laws in a Globalized World

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27801v1
• Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 00:41:31 GMT
• Title: Local Privacy Laws in a Globalized World
• Abstract summary: This work aims to broaden the digital privacy research community's perspective.<n>It aims to serve as a set of guiding principles for developing technological privacy solutions spanning multiple countries.
• Score: 6.649201720862553
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Personal data has emerged as a highly valuable yet sensitive asset that drives business decisions, enables targeted advertising, and generates substantial revenue for companies, while simultaneously facilitating invasive monitoring of users. In recent years, research on digital privacy violations, including undue access, collection, and sharing of user data, has grown significantly. Much of this research adopts the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as the primary reference framework. This is reasonable, as GDPR was a pioneering legislation, and many of its stipulations are clear and unambiguous. However, we argue that focusing solely on GDPR (and a small set of other Western regulatory frameworks) ignores privacy-related concerns, attitudes, and problems faced by users from other locales, creating a significant research blind spot. This work systematically normalizes the heterogeneous legal requirements of multiple data protection laws into a unified abstraction aligned with the data lifecycle, which forms the foundation for the implementation of such regulations. We further investigate the implications of these laws on different stakeholders, including users, organizations, and governments. Overall, this work aims to broaden the digital privacy research community's perspective and to serve as a set of guiding principles for developing technological privacy solutions spanning multiple countries.

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