Around the globe, in any case, nation-states do not readily relinquish their territory of influence. That is why governments are devising new mechanisms and frameworks to tame the evolving digital world, which is on its way to eroding government control over many of its areas. For that reason, the parliament of Pakistan approved a controversial amendment to its already existing Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (Peca), 2016 – though annulled recently by the Islamabad High Court. In the same vein, China has already introduced new rules for Ant Group and Alibaba, and the EU has put forward a legal regime for its digital sentries. India has passed official digital currency and data protection bills, while the US House of Representatives has given a node to various Big Tech antitrust bills. All this is to rein in the expanding influence of technology companies. As algorithms created for digital space reside in cloud centres located in the physical territory controlled by governments, digital enterprises are at a loss to avoid these curbs. In violation, they come under sanctions in the form of huge fines, blockage of websites, or the arrest of their executives.
Notwithstanding this, the digital space is growing very swiftly. Global digital estimates show that over 80 billion terabytes of data were created and stored in data centres in 2021 alone; for instance, everyday, the end-users consume over one billion hours of YouTube videos around the continents. Considering this...
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