UK Becomes First Associate Member of CBPR
he UK is now the first country with Associate status in the Global Cross Border Privacy Rules (CBPR) Forum, opening up opportunities for international collaboration on data transfers.
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The Playbook: Data Sharing for Research
The playbook addresses vital steps for data management, sharing, and program execution between companies and researchers.
Joint guide to ASEAN Model Contractual Clauses and EU Standard Contractual Clauses
EC and ASEAN issued joint guide comparing EU standard contractual clauses (SCC) with ASEAN model contractual clauses (MCCs).
G-7 Privacy Regulators Aim To Ease Turbulent International Data Flows
The goal of the meetings is to gradually align the regulators’ approaches to privacy and better understand domestic rules in each jurisdiction.
USA offers foreign states access to 1.1 billion biometric “encounters” in return for reciprocal database access
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is touting ‘Enhanced Border Security Agreements’, offering access to its vast biometric databanks in exchange for other states reciprocating.
Danish DPA bans Google Workspace and US transfers
The Danish data protection authority banned a municipality’s use of Google Workspace for Education and suspended all US transfers.
European Commission sued for violating EU’s data protection rules
The EU Commission is faces a lawsuit over allegations it is violating GDPR rules when transferring citizens’ personal data from one of its websites to the US.
TikTok ‘pauses’ privacy policy switch in Europe after regulatory scrutiny
Privacy experts had also questioned the appropriateness of TikTok using a legitimate interest ground to run behavioral advertising.
Irish DPC files draft order to halt Meta’s data transfers to US
The Irish DPC informed its EU DPA counterparts of its draft decision to halt Meta’s data flows from the EU to the U.S.
E.U. justice chief ‘confident’ data deal with U.S. will survive legal challenge
“I’m quite confident in the fact that we have a robust solution,” Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders said in an interview.
Campaigners warn over Privacy Shield enhancements
Schrems III on the cards unless negotiators protect better oversight of US data access requests.
The Era of Borderless Data Is Ending
Nations are accelerating efforts to control data produced within their perimeters, disrupting the flow of what has become a kind of digital currency.
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