Lokke Moerel, ICT Partner At De Brauw Defends Her Dissertation 'Binding Corporate Rules' At Tilburg University

Lokke Moerel, ICT partner at De Brauw has defended her dissertation 'Binding Corporate Rules' on 19 September at Tilburg University.

In the absence of adequate national legislation in Europe, multinationals are increasingly implementing worldwide privacy codes, 'Binding Corporate Rules', to facilitate international transfer of personal data. Moerel advocates international recognition of this new form of self-regulation.

Moerel explains: "In this digital age, multinationals process more and more of their employees' and customers' personal data. In my dissertation I note that multinationals increasingly integrate these data into central IT systems which can be accessed from the company's different locations. These central systems are managed by outsourcing suppliers, who in turn process the data from offshore locations such as India. As a result, employee and customer data are transferred continuously all over the world".

In her dissertation Lokke Moerel argues that through cloud computing these data are located everywhere and can no longer be linked to a specific location, whereas legislation is linked to the territory of an individual state. This has resulted in a worldwide jungle of national privacy laws...