Modern businesses increasingly depend on the free data flows between business units, customers and third parties. As new legislation and developments shake up the existing principles of cross- border data transfer, many internationally operating organisations turn to Binding Corporate Rules (BCRs).
1. data processing - (computer science) a series of operations on data by a computer in order to retrieve or transform or classify information. computer science, computing-the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures.
Computer data is information processed or stored by a computer. This information may be in the form of text documents, images, audio clips, software programs, or other types of data. Computer data may be processed by the computer's CPU and is stored in files and folders on the computer's hard disk.