Law and Humanities
Quarterly Reviews
ISSN 2827-9735
Published: 22 December 2023
Blockchain, Legal Interpretation, and Contextuality as Tools to Establish Privacy and Fundamental Rights Protection Amid Geopolitical and Legal Uncertainty
Pierangelo Blandino
University of Lapland
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10.31014/aior.1996.02.04.95
Pages: 179-184
Keywords: Blockchain, Legal Interpretation, Contextuality, Privacy, Fundamental Rights Protection
Abstract
This summary explores the degree of rights’ protection when it comes to States forms of surveillance under a concise legal comparative outline. Given today’s interdependence put into being first by Global Governance patterns and then by exchange on platforms, attention will be drawn to the Chinese Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), American Clarifying Lawful Overseas Use of Data Act (Cloud Act) and the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), along with the recently adopted Data Privacy Framework (DPF). At a second stage, new possible techniques are considered to properly tackle these unprecedented changes that challenge traditional legal patterns.
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