Every hour of every day Americans see, smell, taste, or hear goods and services traded between the United States and other nations. Trade issues are front-page news but most Americans know little about the potential impact of global economic interdependence on their jobs, standard of living, and...

Last year, the European Commission proposed a comprehensive reform of the EU’s data protection rules. The proposed regulation has been surrounded by fi erce controversy and has been the subject of frenzied lobbying by global corporations, industry groups, research centres and privacy...

Companies, governments, and individuals are using data to create new global sectors that depend on information economies of scale and scope and the free flow of information across borders. These new sectors need clear rules and exceptions to the rules governing cross-border data flows. At the...