EURACTIV reports EU negotiators have agreed on legislation prohibiting data localization. The bill will allow companies to store non-personal data in any location in the European Union. The European Commission had been touting the law as a way to make data storage cheaper and easier among the member states. “Data localisation restrictions are signs of protectionism for which there is no place in a single market. After free movement of people, goods, services and capital, we have made the next step with this agreement for a free flow of non-personal data to drive technological innovations and new business models and create a European data space for all types of data,” European Commission Vice President Andrus Ansip said in a statement.
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