While GDPR has been described as the new gold standard for data protection, Convention 108 may represent the potential global standard in this field. The recent progressive expansion of the Council of Europe's model and the modernised version of the Convention have revitalised its role in the global context.

In a multipolar world of different regulatory approaches where data protection legislation in many countries is still absent or in its early stages, Convention 108 could be seen as representing the embodiment of the Latin saying “in medio stat virtus”. Between the extremes of a weak safeguarding of individual rights and a gold standard, Convention 108 provides a solution that is good enough and workable in many different contexts, without necessarily reaching a gold standard.

尽管GDPR被描述为数据保护的新金标准，但第108号公约可能代表了该领域的潜在全球标准。欧洲委员会模式的最近逐步扩大和《公约》的现代化版本在全球范围内恢复了其作用。

在采用不同监管方法的多极世界中，许多国家仍未制定数据保护立法，或处于早期阶段，第108号公约可被视为代表拉丁语“在中型状态下”的体现。在薄弱的个人权利保障与金本位制的极端之间，第108号公约提供了一种在许多不同情况下都足够好且可行的解决方案，而不必达到金本位制。