May seems to agree with Angie after all.
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Germany: Merkel calls for global regulation of the Internet
Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel regards the regulation of the Internet as a requirement. The demand shows considerable perplexity against new technologies. Germany has been in this area for years.
According to Reuters, Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a global regulation for parts of the digital sector in Mexico a few days ago. "Industry 4.0 will have to go through the process that we have already gone through at the World Trade Organization (WTO) with real trading operations that we have gone through in the G20 process with financial market regulation," said Merkel.
"The background is a series of developments in the digital sector, ranging from security issues such as cyberattacks, the responsibility of social platforms to tax issues in international trade, and growing concern in the world Of policy. "
As a matter of fact, technology companies are steadily escaping from control by national governments: The short news service Twitter, for example, will transfer data from its German customers abroad as of June 18, where the user no longer learns. The US company expressly points out that users will then accept that their data no longer have to be subject to the standards of German data protection. From the point of view of a corporation that generates so-called "big data" with the evaluation of information and from this develops new business models, this appears logical. From the point of view of a government, which wants to control the Internet not least from its own interests, the situation looks different. Authoritarian states like Russia and China pursue similar strategies as Germany. After all, Russia is at the forefront of blockchain technology - there is still no broad political discussion about the opportunities and risks of this technology in Germany.
This is the reason for the networking of IT technology and production, which is a competition that enables economic regions to set standards. Because German companies around the world also work globally and transfer data within their companies globally, the question arises as to how access is regulated. In Germany, the principle of "parsimony" - that is, the most controlled publication of data from citizens to the state or the company - is based on the principle prevailing in the USA, for example, that allows everything that is not forbidden. Regarding the spread of digital platforms, the federal government would have to take regulatory steps, said Minister of Economics Brigitte Zypries on Tuesday at the IT summit in Ludwigshafen.
BDI CEO Dieter Kempf warned in Mexico that in the German debate data parshness should be replaced in the future by the principle of "data sovereignty". Merkel also explicitly calls for a new openness to the development of "big data", ie the analysis of large amounts of anonymised data, which are important for traffic control systems, for example. But the BDI boss also demands that the policy regulations should be for data security and standardization. Because in the "analogous world" there is a standardization in the economy, for example through DIN processes.Internationally, it is defined here which basic requirements certain products have to meet.
This is important for consumers and businesses alike in a global world. "But the digital transformation prevents traditional ways of standardization," said Kempf, according to Reuters. Instead of the existing standardization committees, today's IT companies would set standards on a grand scale. In dramatic words, Merkel had warned German autoconists that they could only become an extended workbench of American IT corporations, who would be much better informed about individual customer requirements by their data analysis.
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