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26 Jan 2021

techUK Signs Multi-Industry Statement on Cross-Border Data Transfers and Data Localization in WTO Negotiations on E-Commerce

techUK joins other organisations in calling for an agreement which disciplines unnecessary or discriminatory data localization mandates and data transfer restrictions in the WTO e-commerce negotiations.

techUK is proud to join over 75 associations from Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceana & the Western Hemisphere calling for a cross-border data framework that matches the world’s highest standards. Together, we urge governments to make progress and set ambitious commitments in the WTO e-commerce talks to ensure safe and seamless cross-border data flows.

At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has forced many aspects of public and commercial life into a remote environment, continued economic development, innovation, and employment depend upon cross-border access to digitally delivered services and technologies and upon the responsible movement of data across borders.

The statement was shared with the WTO JSI co-convenors. techUK will be joining a call with the JSI co-convenor delegations to receive an update on the status and timing fo the negotiations, with a particular focus on the issue of cross-border data transfers and data localisation disciplines. 

Read our multi-industry statement below.

Multi Industry Statement on CrossBorder Data Transfers and Data Localization.pdf

 

If you have any questions, please reach out to [email protected] 

 

Sabina Ciofu

Sabina Ciofu

Associate Director – International, techUK

Sabina Ciofu is Associate Director – International, running the International Policy and Trade Programme at techUK.

Based in Brussels, she leads our EU policy and engagement. She is also our lead on international trade policy, with a focus on digital trade chapter in FTAs, regulatory cooperation as well as broader engagement with the G7, G20, WTO and OECD.

As a transatlanticist at heart, Sabina is a GMF Marshall Memorial fellow and issue-lead on the EU-US Trade and Technology Council, within DigitalEurope.

Previously, she worked as Policy Advisor to a Member of the European Parliament for almost a decade, where she specialised in tech regulation, international trade and EU-US relations.

Sabina loves building communities and bringing people together. She is the founder of the Gentlewomen’s Club and co-organiser of the Young Professionals in Digital Policy. Previously, as a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Shapers Community, she led several youth civic engagement and gender equality projects.

She sits on the Advisory Board of the University College London European Institute, Café Transatlantique, a network of women in transatlantic technology policy and The Nine, Brussels’ first members-only club designed for women.

Sabina holds an MA in War Studies from King’s College London and a BA in Classics from the University of Cambridge.

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