Local Law Assessments and Online Services – Refining the Approach to Beneficial and Protective Cross-Border Data Flows: A Case Study from British Columbia

Cross-border data flows foster innovation and growth, support cybersecurity, and enable access to essential services. They are important for delivering public services and empowering individuals to access them, including healthcare and education. Cross-border data flows make access to transformational technologies like AI equally available to individuals and public and private sector organizations who might otherwise be foreclosed from participating in this crucial aspect of the digital economy. They foster collaboration and innovation using public data and data that is shared between organizations and between the public and private sectors, and they are crucial to the coordination of cybersecurity frameworks as well as the international effort to combat fraudulent and criminal activity in a number of sectors. In short, cross-border access to data is critical to enabling our modern digital ecosystem.

This paper examines a “case study” of recent developments in British Columbia that appear to require a local law assessment (similar to a TRA) when using non-Canadian cloud services.

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