Startups are increasingly dependent on the collection, processing, and use of personal data for their success. For that reason, businesses and startups take data breaches and privacy violations very seriously and implement measures to ensure their users’ data security. We’ve identified some of the Privacy-Enhancing Technologies (PETs) that startups are employing! What are PETS? PETs …
Data Latest News Privacy Startups
September 12, 2023
INFOGRAPHIC: The New EU-US Data Privacy Framework
We have crafted an infographic to explain the current landscape of EU-US data transfers. It dives into how the successor to the Privacy Shield, the new Data Privacy Framework, holds great potential to facilitate the transfer of data from the EU to the US, in particular for startups. As Allied for Startups, an association that …
Data Latest News Press Release Privacy
July 11, 2023
PRESS RELEASE: New EU-US Data Privacy Framework is vital for startups and a key milestone for Transatlantic Relations
[Brussels, 11 July 2023, contact: jaime@alliedforstartups.org] The European Commission’s adoption of its adequacy agreement for EU-US personal data is a milestone decision. It is a crucial step towards an adequacy regime that will provide significant benefits for startups by enabling free and secure data flows across the Atlantic. The invalidation of the Privacy Shield in …
Data Policy
July 6, 2023
Assessing The Data Act: How Startup-Friendly Is It?
On the 27th of June, after three months of trilogue negotiations, EU policymakers came to an agreement on the Data Act, which mandates requirements to facilitate the sharing of non-personal data. Before the beginning of the trilogues, Allied for Startups and its Members approached policymakers with an open letter in which we suggested three key …
Data Latest News Press Release
June 28, 2023
PRESS RELEASE: Data Act: Startups commend EU harmonisation efforts and call for functioning data flows
[Brussels, 27 June 2023, contact jaime@alliedforstartups.org] Allied for Startups welcomes policymakers’ ambition to harmonise rules on access and use of industrial data in the EU. By establishing rules of fair access and use of data, the Data Act has the potential to become a powerful instrument for startups to access and transfer relevant data. While …
Data Latest News Startups
June 21, 2023
A 10-step guide for startups to transfer data across borders
Startups are global from day one. In today’s increasingly interconnected world, transferring data across borders is the bread and butter of every startup ecosystem. The sharp increase of complex data protection regulation over the last few years has become a burdensome process for smaller actors with limited resources. In this blogpost we have explored the …
Data Latest News Policy
May 25, 2023
‘Back to Basics for Startups’ – International Data Transfers
Any entrepreneur is just an idea and the right data set away from a startup. As global actors, startups benefit from transferring data across borders to expand their customer base and scale their businesses. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Data Governance Act (DGA) and the Data Act are three key policies that contain …
Data Latest News Open Letter Uncategorized
April 25, 2023
The Data Act should be as clear and simple as a Startup Pitch
Startup communities have come together and sent a Data Act open letter to policy makers. The letter is co-signed by 13 startup associations and includes 3 key asks from policy makers to ensure the file fulfills its promise of stimulating a competitive data market, opening opportunities for data-driven innovation and making data more accessible for …
Data Latest News Policy
April 13, 2023
Towards a New EU-US Data Privacy Framework
Data is the essential raw material for startups to thrive in the global economy. Adequacy agreements between different jurisdictions are essential to startup ecosystems as they facilitate startups’ legal compliance, provide legal certainty and enable cross-border data transfers. The EU and the US can boost the economy on both sides of the Atlantic, providing new …
Data Latest News
March 15, 2023
Startups’ joint statement on the Data Act
The Data Act is built on ambitions that startup associations share and has the potential to bring a key resource -data- to more startups. Startup-friendly data policies should, however, balance the incentives and costs involved in the value-chain of dataset creation and maintenance. In this context, we have concerns that several provisions of the Data …