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Weaponizing Cross-Border Data Flows: An Opportunity for NATO?

2023· article· en· W4384834277 on OpenAlexaff
Matt Malone

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicEuropean Criminal Justice and Data Protection
Canadian institutionsThompson Rivers University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsEuropean unionData Protection Act 1998International tradeFree flowTreatyDeterrence theoryData Protection DirectiveSovereigntyNorth Atlantic TreatyHarmGeneral Data Protection RegulationPolitical scienceComputer securityBusinessLawEuropean Union lawComputer sciencePolitics

Abstract

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On July 12, 2022, following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) issued a warning to data exporters, reminding them Russia did not have an adequacy agreement governing cross-border data flows of Europeans’ personal data to Russia. As such, blanket transfers of personal data were not permissible under European data protection law; instead, compliance needed to be assessed by data exporters on a case-by-case basis, and, where it could not be ensured, transfers should be suspended. This article views the EDPB declaration as a shot across the bow and extrapolates it to a future where cross-border data flow restrictions are deployed as an instrument of cooperative security as well as deterrence and defense. Given the potential sensitivity of personal information being transferred across borders, along with the economic value inherent in data flows in the digital economy, restrictions on cross-border data flows have the potential to inflict serious harm. This article explores the broader implications of this potential practice, assessing its security opportunities and drawbacks. The article advocates for reforming North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) members’ divergent approaches to the regulation of processing of cross-border data transfers; it suggests these member states can and should overcome their splintered approaches by establishing a “safe data zone” to facilitate cross-border data flows among members, where NATO retains the power to issue embargoes on cross-border data flows to specific jurisdictions while otherwise leaving decisional authority for transfers to supranational entities like the European Union (EU) or sovereign states. This approach would increase cross-border data flows between allies while permitting restrictions with adversaries where doing so achieves security objectives.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.842
Threshold uncertainty score0.719

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.318
GPT teacher head0.530
Teacher spread0.213 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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