Corporations and the Global Backlash Over Privacy: Too Big to Regulate?

Privacy design and (global) regulation of new technologies is an emerging concern for businesses, governments, and especially for the legal field itself. This article tries to explore strategies for controlling communication and information flows on how to regulate them and avoid abuses and the breach of our basic fundamental rights, as such privacy. Even more, when we refer to Artificial Intelligences and how it can escape our control (and its legal capacity to adapt its own normativity). Especially when considering cross-border legal issues, technology is the desired factor, and perhaps the corporations leading such advances are becoming too big to be regulated. Thus, digital compliance emerges as a relevant tool for an autopoietic process of self-regulation, in addition to the creation and even enforcement of this new type of law, triggered by the advances of social responsibility: social media and the respective reputational damage arising from “digital cancellations” and other freshly new sanctions.