This report analyses whether and to what extent restrictions on onward transfers of EU personal data from Japan to the parties of the CPTPP or to the U.S. could violate the CPTPP or UJSDTA, and if so, whether they can be justified based on the exceptions these agreements contain. The report...

“Digital sovereignty” has become a buzzword of the new European policies and rules on data governance. This discourse, however, is not entirely new. Already at the dawn of data protection laws in Europe, information sovereignty was one of the concerns that regulation of personal data flows...