techUK and the Global Business Community call on EU to Safeguard International Data Flows
techUK and the Global Business Community call on EU to Safeguard International Data Flows
techUK has joined a wide-ranging coalition of industry groups in a call to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Commission to ensure much-needed legal certainty around data flows in and outside of the bloc.
As a recent BusinessEurope-led coalition statement underlines, an unduly restrictive approach to data flows would have a significant effect on European industries and risks damaging the competitiveness and innovative capability of the EU’s digital economy. In their current form, the draft Recommendations would mean that a very large number of existing business functions carried out by EEA and non-EEA based companies would either no longer be permitted or extremely risky to carry out. This approach, coupled with the unrealistic regulatory burden placed on smaller firms, risk