Navigating Data Privacy for Cross-Border Investigations

In a commentary for FCPA Blog, Allison Griffin, a director with Control Risks’ Compliance Forensics, and Intelligence team, discusses how some countries' data localization requirements can make cross-border investigations more difficult. Many countries are starting to require international companies to store data about their residents locally, either to protect their data from being disseminated, to keep that data accessible to government for criminal investigations, or both.