JAN 28, 2021 | GLOBAL
Global Data Alliance Calls Attention to Data Localization Policies in First Special 301 Filing
WASHINGTON – January 28, 2021 – The Global Data Alliance today submitted its first Special 301 filing, emphasizing the ways that data localization and cross-border data transfer restrictions impair innovation and intellectual property rights and undermine market access for persons who rely on IP rights.
In its submission, the Global Data Alliance urged policymakers to maintain a strong commitment to policies that foster cross-data data-enabled innovation.
“Global Data Alliance members rely on the ability to transfer data across borders to create, innovate, and achieve scientific and technological advances,” said Joseph Whitlock, Director, Policy at BSA | The Software Alliance. “National policies that restrict cross-border data transfers limit that creativity, innovation, and R&D in the countries that implement them and beyond. The Global Data Alliance calls on the Office of the US Trade Representative to bring greater attention to this growing threat to innovation and scientific progress around the world.”
To read the Global Data Alliance’s submission, visit: https://www.globaldataalliance.org/downloads/01282021gda2021special301.pdf
About the Global Data Alliance
The Global Data Alliance (globaldataalliance.org) is a cross-industry coalition of companies that are committed to high standards of data responsibility and that rely on the ability to transfer data around the world to innovate and create jobs. The Alliance supports policies that help instill trust in the digital economy while safeguarding the ability to transfer data across borders and refraining from imposing data localization requirements that restrict trade.
Alliance members include BSA members and American Express, Amgen, AT&T, Citi, ITB360, LEGO, Mastercard, Medtronic, Panasonic, Pfizer, RELX, Roche, UDS Technology, United Airlines, Verizon, Visa, and WD-40 Company. These companies are headquartered across the globe and are active in the advanced manufacturing, aerospace, automotive, consumer goods, electronics, financial services, health, media and entertainment, natural resources, supply chain, and telecommunications sectors, among others. BSA | The Software Alliance administers the Global Data Alliance.
ÜBER BSA
BSA | The Software Alliance (www.bsa.org) ist die globale Stimme der Software-Industrie gegenüber Politik und Wirtschaft. Die Mitglieder der BSA gehören zu den innovativsten Unternehmen weltweit und erarbeiten neue Software-Lösungen, die die Wirtschaft antreiben und das moderne Leben von heute prägen.
Die BSA mit Hauptsitz in Washington, D.C., und Niederlassungen in über 30 Ländern weltweit leistet Pionierarbeit in der Schaffung von Programmen zur Einhaltung und Durchsetzung geistiger Eigentumsrechte und der Einführung von Richtlinien, auf deren Basis technologische Innovationen und die digitale Wirtschaft gefördert werden.