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Posts tagged International Data Transfer Agreement
Best Before: 21 March 2024

Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants highlight the forthcoming deadline for data controllers to review and, if necessary, update the safeguards relied upon as the lawful basis for conducting transfers of personal data from the UK to overseas where these currently rely upon the old European Commission standard contractual clauses / model clauses, including guidance on the actions that need to be taken.

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UK-US data bridge open for traffic

Handley Gill’s specialist data protection consultants consider the implications of The Data Protection (Adequacy) (United States of America) Regulations 2023 (SI 2023/1028) for data exporters subject to the UK GDPR conducting personal data transfers from the UK to the USA and what action should be taken.  

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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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Risky business

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.

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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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