“Even those who created the rules were finding it difficult to comply with them”

If your company transfers any data to the US, or other countries, then you need to stay on top of the legal rules – or risk huge fines

Woah! It’s been over a year since I last updated you on international data transfers. Those were the days when compliant transfers of personal data to the US seemed impossible. In 2020, the EU-US Privacy Shield was declared invalid, and there began the requirement to undertake transfer risk assessments (TRAs) when using contractual solutions to send data to the US (and other countries). It got worse from there, as it seemed supervisory authorities were not taking a laissez-faire approach to enforcement of the new requirements; for example, the Austrian and French authorities’ action against websites using Google Analytics, as covered in my article in issue 343 of PC Pro. In 2023, Meta Ireland was fined €1.2 billion by the Irish Data Protection Commission – the largest GDPR fine ever – for unlawful…

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PC Pro (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2024

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