The European Data Protection Board (the gathering of all EU Data Protection Regulators) has now published its initial guidance on transfers out of the EEA following the Schrems II case. This recommends that exporting organisations follow a similar roadmap to the earlier one from the European Data Protection Supervisor (who regulates the EU institutions). In […]
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Posts relating to exporting personal data from the European Economic Area
The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has responded to the Schrems II judgment with a risk-based roadmap for EU institutions: Perform an inventory of all flows of personal data to entities outside the EU; Priority for change will be existing transfers with either no legal basis, those based on a derogation, and those to organisations […]
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Where should I put my data?
After a couple of years when the question of data location had dropped a little down the priority list, two things have pushed it back up again. First, the Schrems II decision of the European Court, which cancelled the US-EU Privacy Shield and added some – but it’s not yet clear how onerous – new […]
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Brexit in 58 seconds…
Colleagues set me the challenge of saying something about my work in one minute. So here (on YouTube) is a “peacast” – my wife says it’s too small to be a “podcast” – on Brexit and GDPR: Comments very welcome on the format and, if you like it, suggestions for any other topics I could […]
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Schrems II: SCCs plus… what?
The recent Schrems II decision on Standard Contractual Clauses found that, in some situations, data exporters and importers might need to agree additional measures beyond just relying on SCCs. While we’re waiting for the Information Commissioner and EDPB to give more detailed advice on which situations and which measures, here are some themes I’ve spotted […]
[UPDATE 27/7/20: the ICO has now published a statement on the decision] On July 16th 2020, the European Court of Justice made its long-awaited decision in the case of Data Protection Commissioner [Ireland] v Facebook Ireland Ltd and Maximillian Schrems, generally known as “Schrems II”. This concerned two of the GDPR’s mechanisms for transferring personal […]
I was recently invited by EDUCAUSE to present a webinar on GDPR to their community of mostly North American universities and colleges. The number of participants indicates that European data protection law is a topic of interest. But the most common question was why, as non-EU organisations, they should care about GDPR. So I wrote […]
Although the Article 29 Working Party seem to have had applications such as incident response in mind when drafting their guidance on exports, that guidance could also be helpful in the field of federated authentication. This technology allows an “identity provider” such as a university or college to assure a “service provider” such as a […]
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GDPR: sending incident reports overseas
When incident response teams (CSIRTs) detect an attack on their systems, they normally report details back to the network or organisation from which the attack comes. This can have two benefits for the reporter: in the short term, making the attack stop; in the longer term helping that organisation to improve the security of its […]
Jisc responded to the DCMS consultation on implementing the Research provisions of the GDPR into UK law. The exemptions from certain obligations and data subject rights contained in section 33 of the Data Protection Act 1998 have been vital in enabling long-term research studies, including in health and social sciences, while ensuring the protection of […]