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Ttestimony at House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Digital Commerce and Consumer Protection Hearing; "21st Century Trade Barriers: Protectionist Cross Border Data Flow Policies Impact on U.S. Jobs." October 12, 2017

"The free movement of data across borders is critical to economic growth, has benefits for data security, and promotes privacy, speech, and associational rights. Yet, increasingly states are adopting a range of measures that restrict data flows to the United States and elsewhere and adopting costly data localization mandates, pursuant to which companies must store data locally.1 Such restrictions on the free movement of data harm U.S. business interests, …