The legality of data residency requirements: How can the trans-pacific partnership help?

• Main Authors: PENG, Shin-yi, LIU, Han-wei
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Science and Technology Law; Science and Technology Policy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/4413; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/6371/viewcontent/TRAD2017008.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Article 14.13 of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) Agreement – the data localization (DL) clause – represents the first time that a far-reaching preferential trade agreement (PTA) seeks to reduce protectionism arising from data residency (DR) requirements. The DL clause, however, is linked to a lo...