AS DIGITISATION GROWS THE VULNERABILITY OF COMPANIES TO DATA GRABS BY LAW ENFORCERS WILL INTENSIFY
November 1st, 2017
MAJOR multinational corporations holding large volumes of client data and those offering cloud computing services are facing the risk of increased demands that they share records with regulators and law enforcers. Countries are preparing to ease and expedite data sharing for criminal investigations with foreign law enforcement authorities, and this can affect emerging markets as much as developed economies. Raghavendra Verma reports from New Delhi.
Mutual legal assistance treaties (MLAT) provide the standard international mechanism though which countries grant ...
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