As governments and businesses in all sectors continue their digital transformation, they increasingly rely on the ability to access data to effectively serve their customers and citizens. But proposed data transfer restrictions and data localization requirements will impede digital transformation and increase cybersecurity risks for organizations and the digital ecosystem more broadly.
Data Localization and Transfer Restrictions: Concerning Trends
Some countries are incorrectly justifying data transfer restrictions and localization requirements by reasoning that these rules improve cybersecurity. But the opposite is the case: data transfer restrictions and localization requirements increase cybersecurity risk to both public and private sector organizations, and threaten to put politics and protectionism over cybersecurity. (More details here.) (more…)