Between business interests and security: American ITgiants and new laws on personal data protection

In recent decades, the activities of major American IT companies have significantly increased the risks in the field of information security and personal data protection in the United States, revealing the national legislation gap regarding the development of modern technologies. On the one hand, privacy has been violated by the IT companies, whose servers store personal data of millions of citizens from different countries. On the other hand, US law enforcement agencies have been seeking to expand their functions to use this data for national security purposes. In this situation, there is a question of new legal regulatory approaches that meet the requirements of the modern technological environment. The new European model of personal data protection (General data protection regulation, GDPR) has a great influence on this process.