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.
1) In computer data processing, a record is a collection of data items arranged for processing by a program. Multiple records are contained in a file or data set. The organization of data in the record is usually prescribed by the programming language that defines the record's organization and/or by the application that processes it.