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Posts tagged Data exporter
Certify...certify me!

Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants consider the options and certification requirements for US entities importing personal data from the EEA following the adoption of the European Commission’s adequacy decision in respect of the Trans-Atlantic EU-US Data Privacy Framework, providing a lawful basis for transferring personal data to the US under the GDPR.

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Freedom from the tyranny of supplementary measures

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.

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A bridge to nowhere?

A commitment to establishing a UK-US data bridge, which would take the form of adequacy regulations being issued by the Secretary of State pursuant to section 17A Data Protection Act 2018, has been announced. Since this bridge is likely to be contingent on the European Commission issuing its own adequacy decision, and the draft has recently been rejected by the European Parliament, data exporters will be reliant on the Commission ramming through the roadblock or will find themselves stuck in traffic on the UK-US data flyover.

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See ya SCCs, enter the IDTA

New 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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