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The Portuguese data protection authority issued a recent resolution ordering the
Portuguese National Institute of Statistics (or INE) to stop
sending personal census information to any countries outside of the
EU that do not provide "adequate" levels of data
protection. Among those countries are the United States.
Prompting the resolution was the INE's use of the US company
Cloudflare, Inc. The parties had standard contractual clauses in
place, and relying on those, the INE transferred Portuguese
resident data from the 2021 census surveys to Cloudflare. Citing