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News of the European Commission’s draft Decision that the UK ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the EU to the UK can only have been greeted by with a sigh of relief by businesses both in the UK and in the EU. This is the first and most important step on the road to delivering a final Decision enabling data flows to the UK to continue unhindered. Such a Decision should now be achievable by the 30 June deadline imposed through the UK-EU Trade and Cooperation Agreement. Nevertheless, the road ahead up to adoption of the Decision and beyond might just be a bumpy one.
In a solid step forward for EU to UK personal data transfers, the European Commission has published its draft adequacy decision that will (if finally adopted) permit personal data to.
By Neil Hodge2021-02-25T21:48:00+00:00
Ireland’s data regulator has 27 ongoing cross-border inquiries into Big Tech firms, with Facebook and its associated companies accounting for 14 of them.
According to the 2020 annual report from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), there are nine investigations into Facebook for potential violations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), with three more into Instagram and two into WhatsApp.
There are also three live investigations into Apple, three into Twitter, two into Google, and one each for LinkedIn (owned by Microsoft), MTCH, Quantcast, Verizon, and Yelp.
Much has been made of the Irish DPC’s slow progress with its cross-border caseload, but the regulator is realistic about its prospects of concluding all these cases quickly.
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Wednesday, February 24, 2021
In mid-January 2021, the European Data Protection Board (
EDPB) announced by press release that it has adopted jointly with the European Data Protection Supervisor (
EDPS) written Opinions on the European Commission’s drafts for new standard contractual clauses according to Art. 46 of the General Data Protection Regulation (
GDPR) and Art. 48 of the European Union Data Protection Regulation (
EUDPR). In the near future, there will be two new sets of standard contractual clauses: one for the transfer of personal data between controllers and processors within the European Union/European Economic Area (
EU/EAA), and another for the transfer of personal data to third countries outside of the EU/EEA.