Holiday packing list

With the summer holiday season in full swing, Handley Gill Limited’s specialist data protection and cyber resilience consultants consider the data protection and information security risks of staff taking data and devices used for business purposes overseas and the practical measures that organisations can take to safeguard data subject to border control powers.

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.

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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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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