The sharing of data across borders is core in informational economies. However, the Schrems case against Facebook in 2014 raised important questions about the capacity of existing ‘safe harbour’ policies and practices of multinational corporations in Europe and North America to protect the privacy of individuals’ data. The EU–US ‘Privacy Shield’ framework was subsequently developed to increase data privacy protections. This paper draws upon a sample of English language newspapers and Twitter accounts in Europe and the US from the summer of 2016 to identify the key actors and discourses surrounding the introduction of the Privacy Shield framework. The findings reveal a dominance of trade, market and security language, a focus on individual informational privacy and the dominance of state and legal actors. We argue that privacy is not being redefined in the context of intercontinental data transfers but rather narrowed to a neoliberal free trade framing of information privacy.

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谁的隐私盾？Twitter和报纸上的主要演员和隐私话语

跨境共享数据是信息经济中的核心。但是，2014年针对Facebook的Schrems案对欧洲和北美跨国公司现有的“安全港”政策和惯例保护个人数据隐私的能力提出了重要问题。随后开发了欧盟-美国“隐私保护”框架，以增强数据隐私保护。本文以2016年夏季以来在欧洲和美国的英语报纸和Twitter帐户样本为样本，以确定围绕Privacy Shield框架引入的主要参与者和论述。调查结果揭示了贸易，市场和安全语言的主导地位，侧重于个人信息隐私以及国家和法律行为者的主导地位。