Deutschland Becomes the Battlegrounds of the Data Privacy Debate

Countries all over the world are trying to balance the needs of data scalability with consumer privacy. They are struggling to make this happen, although they have finally started making some progress. California recently passed a new data privacy law, which is the first of its kind in the United States. However, Germany seems to be far ahead of the United States in terms of data privacy. Other countries will likely look to Germany as a model for data privacy. Here is what they should know.Germany Emerges as the
Global Leader on Data PrivacyTechnological progress has made it possible to accumulate and process vast amounts of personal data, concerning everything from our shopping behaviour to our political preferences. To meet this challenge, sweeping change has swept across European data-protection law. But nowhere is this change more pronounced than in Germany.Germany’s history as a heavily authoritarian society has, obviously, shaped modern attitudes in the country toward government coercion. Those living under both the Third Reich and then later the GDR learned to be protective of their privacy – because neither regime would respect its boundaries.While a great deal has changed in Germany since then, a healthy scepticism toward data protection remains. These ...


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