[governance] A Question Concerning Enhanced Cooperation and Regulation in the Information Society

[michael gurstein]

A question concerning EC: would the situation described in
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/technology/google-privacy-inquiries-get-li
ttle-cooperation.html?partner=rss&emc=rss be a possible subject to be dealt
with under EC?

If the answer is "no" where could it reasonably be dealt with in the current
regulatory/legal regime?  

Answering "at the national level" seems to me to be bizarre since even
countries like Germany seem unable to effectively deal with Google in an
area which intimately affects their citizens but ultimately will affect all
countries in the world--great and small with well developed regulatory
regimes and the state structure to support these and less developed
countries without such an infrastructure.

Perhaps EC, coming out of a relatively narrowly focussed (at the insistence
of the Developed Countries) initiative such as WSIS is too narrowly focussed
to allow for this but, at least for the moment it seems to be the only
framework available for dealing with issues such as the one being described
in the NYT article and the broad array of similar issues that are emerging
with increasing frequency.

Mike



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