Handley Gill Limited’s specialist data protection consultants consider the impact of the European Commission’s adequacy decision in respect of the Trans-Atlantic EU-US Data Privacy Framework and the steps controllers and processors should take in relation to transfers of personal data from the EEA and UK to the USA.
Read MorePresident Biden issued Executive Order On Enhancing Safeguards For United States Signals Intelligence Activities on 07 October 2022, enhancing the safeguards afforded to global citizens and laying the foundation for adequacy findings by the European Commission and Secretary of State for ex-EEA and ex-UK restricted international data transfers. While the risk of legal challenge to any adequacy finding would remain, such findings would provide welcome respite for the millions of data exporters who are neither equipped nor resourced to conduct wide ranging reviews of foreign legislation at an individual level.
Read MoreHandley Gill summarises the Government's publication of its response to the ‘Data: A New Direction’ consultation, previewing the content of the forthcoming Data Reform Bill, which was proposed in ‘The Benefits of Brexit’ policy paper and formally announced in the Queen’s Speech 2022.
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