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Chapter V of the GDPR forbids the transfer of the personal data of EU data subjects to countries outside of the EEA — known as third countries — unless appropriate safeguards are imposed, or the third country's data protection regulations are formally considered adequate by the European Commission (Article 45).
Third countries is the term used in legislation to designate countries outside the European Union. Personal data may only be transferred to a third country if that country provides an adequate level of protection of the data.
According to the Data Protection Directive, companies operating in the European Union are not permitted to send personal data to "third countries" outside the European Economic Area, unless they guarantee adequate levels of protection, "the data subject himself agrees to the transfer" or "if Binding Corporate Rules or Standard Contractual ...
Over 80 countries and independent territories, including nearly every country in Europe and many in Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, and Africa, have now adopted comprehensive data protection laws. [1] The European Union has the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), [2] in force since May 25, 2018.
The GDPR also effectively replaced the 1995 European Data Protection Directive [29] that had originally established the free movement of personal data between member state borders, and in doing so granted interoperability of such data among nearly thirty countries.
Get ready for a lobbying furor, because there’s suddenly a plausible, bipartisan, bicameral push to finally give the U.S. a comprehensive data-privacy law, going way beyond the protections for ...
The EDPB remit [1] includes issuing guidelines and recommendations, identifying best practices related to the interpretation and application of the GDPR, [1] advising the European Commission on matters related to the protection of personal data in the European Economic Area (EEA), and adopting opinions to ensure the consistency of application ...
[4] [8] Jersey is considered outside of the European Economic Area, and its 1987 Data Protection law was not adequate, so the restrictions could have harmed Jersey's financial services industry. [4] (Jersey is a major international offshore financial centre [9] and tax haven [10]) In 2008, Jersey achieved 'adequacy status' under the EU rules ...