Processing personal and business data and the rule of law in the era of digital trade

This article addresses data protection including the automatic processing of personal and business data as a result of the flows of information and the digital trade. Nowadays, data is being collected, exchanged and used in small or large amounts by governments, international organizations and companies for medical, educational, social, industrial and tax purposes amongst others. The increasingly collection, exchange and use of data by companies and governments, calls for attention to the legal protection in the collection, exchange, use, monitoring and processing of this data. Furthermore, the use of big data also raises questions regarding the protection of privacy and also the safeguards in place for the data controllers among others. The main question of this article is are the instruments in the era of digital trade, internet governance and taxation sufficient to guarantee the privacy and data protection of individuals and business?In order to answer this question, this article will address the challenges and the instruments for the protection of the use of data and big data in three areas: trade and internet governance and taxation