New guidance issued by the Information Commissioner’s Office on the approach to assessing the risk of restricted ex-UK international data transfers may ease restrictions on transfers of personal data to the US and presents an opportunity to revisit ex-UK international data transfers that had previously been rejected as non-compliant.
Read MoreNew data processing or other sharing agreements governed by the UK GDPR, which are entered into on or after Thursday 22 September 2022 and which involve the export of personal data from the UK to third countries and will rely on appropriate safeguards under Article 46 UK GDPR in the form of standard data protection clauses, can no longer rely on the standard contractual clauses (SCCs) or ‘model clauses’ issued by the European Commission and valid as at 31 December 2020 and must instead incorporate the International Data Transfer Agreement or modernised SCCs and International Data Transfer Addendum.
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