국가간 개인정보 유통과 국제규범의 동학: EU형과 미국형의 갈등을 중심으로

Globalization and Informatization has emerged as a key concept for understanding worldwide changes in the late twentieth century. More recently, 'Global Information Infrastructure'(GII) is commonly accepted as an agent for the formation of global information society. Accompanying the establishment and expansion of GII, the internationalization and globalization of information has accelerated. An important aspect of the trend is that more concern tend to be placed on the transborder data flow(TBDF) has emerged as a salient issue. In other words, information-related threats and vulnerabilities have increased as information system and networks assume critical roles. This reaserch analyzed dynamism of international norms that form the core an international regime for TBDF. This had to take the following into consideration: ⑴the international norms are of two types European and American, ⑵the regions and the sectors form the main structures of issue area expansion that is centered on the market and technological issue, and ⑶ conflict and coordination among divergent norms including the principle of sfe harbor form an important dimension of the international politics of TBDF.