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.
The process of entering data into a computer; can also refer to the data itself. Processing. Performing operations on data that has been input into a computer to convert that input to output. Output. The process of presenting the results of processing; can also refer to the results themselves.