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 …
Data Latest News Policy
January 30, 2023
How startups will be affected by a potential extension of scope of Article 27 of the Data Act to data holders?
We are closely following the discussions on the European Commission’s proposal on the Data Act and its impact on the startup ecosystem. Startup communities are particularly concerned about recent discussions on the extension of the scope of Article 27 from “data processing services” to “data holders”. International data transfers are a key element of innovation …
Data Latest News Press Release
December 13, 2022
PRESS RELEASE: The European Commission’s draft adequacy decision on EU-US data transfers is a crucial step towards startup-friendly transatlantic data transfers
[Brussels, 13 December 2022, contact: maria@alliedforstartups.org] The European Commission’s draft adequacy decision on EU-US personal data transfers is a crucial step towards an agreement that will facilitate personal data transfers between the EU and the US. Allied for Startups welcomes this approach from the European Commission which will bring significant benefits for startups. Allied For …
Data Latest News Policy
December 7, 2022
Cloud Switching in the Data Act: Why does it matter for startups?
In this third piece of the Data Act series, we discuss the way in which the Data Act regulates switching between cloud service providers and how this can affect startups. The Data Act aims to facilitate switching between cloud services by removing commercial, technical, contractual, and organisational obstacles. This is regulated in Chapter VI (Articles …
Data Latest News Policy
November 17, 2022
B2B mandatory data sharing in the Data Act. Friend or foe?
We continue our series on the Data Act, this time we will deep-dive into Business-to-Business (B2B) data sharing, one of the key aspects regulated by the Data Act and a crucial one for startups. One of the key goals of the regulation is to make non-personal/industrial data more widely shared between businesses, which is mainly …
Data DTX
October 18, 2022
A European Health Data Space Fit for Startups
Any entrepreneur is no more than an idea and the right data-set away from a new startup. Access to secondary health data is a key enabler in the development of innovative healthcare solutions. Allied for Startups welcomes the European Commission’s strategy for the creation of a European Health Data Space (EHDS), a core initiative for …
Data Latest News Startups
October 13, 2022
The Data Act: An opportunity to unleash startup potential?
The Data Act is a legislative proposal from the European Commission which aims to regulate non-personal or industrial data within the European Union. It consists of the following three main strands: data relations between industrial actors, cloud data infrastructure and international data transfers. If done correctly, it has the potential to help foster startup growth …
Data Latest News Press Release
October 7, 2022
PRESS RELEASE: The US executive order is a pivotal step towards transatlantic data transfers that work for startups
[Brussels, 7 October 2022, contact: ines@alliedforstartups.org] The US executive order on transatlantic data transfers is a pivotal step towards an agreement that will facilitate data transfers on both sides of the Atlantic. Allied for Startups welcomes this approach from the US administration which will bring significant benefits for startups. Speaking about the release, Allied For …
Data DTX Policy
September 1, 2022
Q4 Projects and Priorities
We’re back after a restful summer break, fully recharged and excited to jump back in on our projects ahead. Entering the last quarter of 2022, we take a look at Allied for Startups’ exciting upcoming activities. Allied for Startups Annual Summit 2022 Allied for Startups will be hosting its Annual Summit in October 2022! After …