With the development of the Internet, data is increasingly phone number data easily and quickly transmitted between companies or groups. In addition, international transfers of customer-prospect files continue to increase. This is why it was necessary to establish an identical level of protection for personal data.
How do international customer-prospect file transfers work? Can I transfer my leads to any foreign server? What are the risks involved?
Since 1995, the European Union has done everything to facilitate the circulation of personal data on its territory while ensuring respect for the rights of its citizens. Indeed, Directive 95/46/EC states in this regard that "in order to eliminate obstacles to the circulation of personal data, the level of protection of the rights and freedoms of individuals with regard to the processing of such data must be equivalent in all Member States".
This is the very purpose of this standard. Since then, all member states, as well as states party to the European Economic Area (Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein), can transfer personal data between themselves.
Thus, the transposition of this standard for the member states (or the accession for the states party to the EEA), is the sine qua non condition for carrying out an international transfer of personal data.
However, this data also transits to states outside the European Union and not party to the EEA.