Cross-Border Personal Data Transfers: Proposed New SCCs Impose Significant Restrictions on Businesses
By EsqSocial Corporation 26/01/21
The European Commission recently published two highly anticipated draft documents to facilitate data transfers. The first was the new, updated and modernised standard contractual clauses (“New SCCs”) for the transfer of personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA), envisaged under Article 46 of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (GDPR). The second was the separate draft set of Article 28 standard contractual clauses between controllers and processors,...
By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP