The UK government has confirmed that the UK will be implementing the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which comes into force from May 2018 when the UK will still be a member of the EU. Once the UK has left the EU it may look again in due time at whether to make
Read MoreBackground Following the collapse in 2015 of the Safe Harbor system for permitting transfers of EU personal data to the US, its agreed replacement (the EU-US Privacy Shield) was adopted by the EU Commission in August this year. In order to transfer EU personal data to the US, recipient US
Read MoreThe long awaited General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) has now been published on the Official Journal of the European Union. What is it? The GDPR will harmonise data protection laws across the EU. It will change how businesses process and transfer the personal data of EU residents. It is scheduled
Read MoreOn Tuesday 2 February 2016, the EU Commission and US Department of Commerce announced that they had reached “political agreement” on a new privacy framework for transfers of personal data between Europe and the United States. The new framework – the “EU–US Privacy Shield” – will replace Safe Harbour, which
Read MoreAs has been widely reported, the US Safe Harbor data transfer framework is dead. However, its successor has yet to be anointed. We are inter regnum and the winds of uncertainty swirl through the otherwise subdued halls of data privacy. What now is a data privacy officer to do? The
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