As one of the most currently important commercial entities, multinational enterprises have great impacts on both host states and home states in almost every industry, such as energy, telecommunications, and manufacturing industry. This work aims to review the state-of-the-art balance for host states to maintain between protection of domestic data and attracting multinational enterprises by comparing the host states' regulations in the new field of data processing and conventional industries.

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... ever, there exists some legislation that has aroused some disputes. This article presents some thoughts to problems that host states may have encountered and focused on the General Data Protection Regulation to solve these problems. Some suggestions are finally given with clear justifications.