PARIS-based International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) has urged law enforcement agencies across the globe to avoid developing mechanisms that compel companies to enter into supposedly "voluntary" agreements to deliver up information under threat of significant, penal, financial, or tax sanctions or local business suspension if they do not. In a policy statement captioned ‘Cross-border law enforcement access to company data – current issues under data protection and privacy law', ICC says LEAs request for data stored in another country through mutual legal assistance treaties and procedures (MLATs) within existing frameworks, ensuring appropriate involvement of authorities in the countries where data are stored.

ICC other recommendations to law enforcement agencies include: take into account the possibility that law enforcement requests may violate the data protection or privacy law of other countries; make requests for access to data only in writing and in accordance with written law and/or local regulation, rather than through informal requests and give companies the opportunity to ascertain the legitimacy of the request and inform the authorities (including their own national authorities) about their obligations under data protection and privacy law, when this is required.