Matthew P. Goodman , Pearl Risberg
Despite the rapidly growing role of data in today’s global economy, there exist few agreed international rules in this area. Global governance of data is a patchwork of unilateral, bilateral, and multilateral frameworks, trade rules, principles, and norms that are not universally accepted or applied. As the world’s largest economy and technology leader, the United States has a huge stake in building a favorable system of global governance for data collection, storage, security, and flows that maximizes economic growth, public health, safety, and privacy. In the run-up to the annual Asia-Pacific summits in November, the Biden administration has an opportunity to build consensus around a coherent regional approach and lay the groundwork for a global data governance regime.
