IAPP CIPP / US Certified Information Privacy Professional Study Guide, 2nd Edition
by Mike Chapple, Joe Shelley
Chapter 9International Privacy Regulation

Many of the largest U.S. corporations have business operations established in countries all over the world. These companies must manage internal logistics, shipping, taxes, information security, product development, sales, and virtually every critical business function across international boundaries. For example, it simply does not make business sense to have separate web servers in every single country hosting the same website. Companies must and do transfer data all around the world in order to deliver products and services and to run their internal operations.
International Data Transfers
When it comes to privacy, there are important implications for international data transfer. If the laws of one nation confer more data privacy rights to individuals, yet the personal data of its citizens is flowing to nations with lesser privacy rights, then those strict rights may ...
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