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Posts tagged Restricted International Data Transfers
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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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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Data Downgrade Down Under?

Handley Gill Limited’s data protection consultants consider the implications of the 2021 Free Trade Agreement between the UK and Australia - taking effect on 31 May 2023 - for the protection of personal data and the ease of international transfers of personal data.

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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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Biden waves Privacy Magic Wand

President 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.

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