The EU may impose GDPR as a standard on trading partners.

Evidence

Other countries are introducing parallel legislation, for example, Brazil with its Data Protection Law (August 2018). As a major power, the European Union may be in a position to seek to impose GDPR as a standard on its trading partners. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 1180

Categorization

• XREF: Relates to regulatory-geopolitics debates around platform power — the EU as norm-setter — which rivals the US surveillance capitalism model. — connects to: The EU adopts market language to bypass member-state sovereignty constraints. — Ève Chiapello, Financialisation of Valuation, 106; Facebook exited the EU legal framework for 1.5 billion users to evade GDPR — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1556; Regulation like the GDPR reshapes but does not dissolve data-colonial power. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 591

Broader Connections

• Facebook exited the EU legal framework for 1.5 billion users to evade GDPR #exemplifies (0.78) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1556
• The EU adopts market language to bypass member-state sovereignty constraints. #expands (0.75) — Ève Chiapello, Financialisation of Valuation, 106
• Regulation like the GDPR reshapes but does not dissolve data-colonial power. #complicates (0.72) — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection, 591