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Initiative
AT A GLANCE
Adopted:
1985
Status:
In recent years, signatory governments have concentrated work on issues emerging from flows of data accompanying international trade; marketed computer services and computerised information services; and intracorporate data flows.

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Organization: Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
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OECD's Declaration on Transborder Data Flows
Description

In this Declaration signatories pledge to:

  1. "Promote access to data and information and related services, and avoid the creation of unjustified barriers to the international exchange of data and information;
  2. "Seek transparency in regulations and policies relating to information, computer and communications services affecting transborder data flows;
  3. "Develop common approaches for dealing with issues related to transborder data flows and, when appropriate, develop harmonized solutions;
  4. "Consider possible implications for other countries when dealing with issues related to transborder data flows."

Why is this initiative significant?

This Declaration has framed Members' treatment of transborder data flows since 1985.

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