There are now more than 100 countries with data privacy laws. Having introduced and discussed key concepts such as data privacy, jurisdiction, forum-shopping, sovereignty and extraterritoriality, Professor Svantesson examines the extraterritoriality of current and proposed EU data privacy law, and the data privacy laws of Australia, Japan, Singapore and the Philippines. Proposals are made for how the extraterritoriality of data privacy laws may be regulated through a doctrine of ´market sovereignty´. Further the central role of geo-location technologies is discussed and a ´layered´ approach to the extraterritoriality of data privacy laws is introduced.

Dan Jerker B. Svantesson is Professor at Bond University Australia and Researcher at the Swedish Law & Informatics Research Institute.