Intellectual Property Rights, Privacy, and Security Issues
Robin Gaster, Erik R. Olbeter, Amy Bolster, Clyde V. Prestowitz · 2020
Intellectual property rights are the basic enabling infrastructure of the information age. Only with firmly established ownership over, and right to, information is it possible to develop an economy in which the transfer of information, and payment for information, play such a large and growing role. While conceptually separate, personal privacy and computer security are tightly related in the digital world. In addition to personal privacy, computer security aims to protection corporate intellectual property rights, in the case of military and diplomatic agencies of government, national security interests. The OECD document still codifies the accepted wisdom on the matter: that transborder business data flows should be generally permitted, subject to limitations only for reasons of national security, public safety, intellectual property, or personal privacy protection. Rapid expansion of the global economy has now been under way for forty years, at an ever-increasing pace. Flows of trade, investment, and technology continue to increase much faster than does the overall global economy.