Will It Still Be Safe For Tech Leaders To Travel Abroad?
Open questions from recent cases
Julian Assange, Meng Wanzhou and Mark Zuckerberg. What do they all have in common?
All of them are involved in the international tech space and all of them are being charged, or potentially charged for crimes, by foreign countries.
We’ve gotten to where we don’t even think about how international the world is these days, especially in the tech space. It seems to be given that technology and international usage go hand-in-hand. What that means to the legal and accountability side of tech companies and leaders has not been thought about much until recently.
We are coming into a space and time where technology is becoming more and more regulated. And as technology becomes more regulated each of the international powers want to have their say over all creators and purveyors of technology.
As a long time business lawyer these developments are both interesting to watch and concerning. We may be on the verge of massive changes to the global technology market that few are talking about.
Let’s get into what are seeing. We see countries and world powers getting territorial showing that we might be on the eve of deglobalizaiton. What will this mean to company leaders?
