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.
Within the field of cognitive psychology, information processing is an approach to the goal of understanding human thinking in relation to how they process the same kind of information as computers (Shannon & Weaver, 1963).