The European Commission Vice-President Andrus Ansip has said that the EC wants to remove restrictions for storing certain types of health and commercial data, Reuters reports. "Barriers like data localization not only prevent economies of scale,” Ansip said. “Data localization also holds back the digital single market. It is not good for Europe, its businesses or for technologies.” He said that the EC would present a plan to revise “unnecessary restrictions on where data is located.” “Forcible data localization rules will not lead to better protection, but to fragmentation," he added.
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