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July 29 2014

International Data Transfers - The Challenge Continues

The discussion at the Council of the EU in the context of the European data protection legislative reform is by no means the end of a process which is likely to carry on for at least a year, but it provided a helpful pointer as to where the policy making thinking is. One of the biggest challenges that organisations operating in the EU have faced since the 1990s is the prohibition on transfers of data to jurisdictions outside the EU without equivalent standards of data protection. The ongoing legislative reform is an opportunity to review the existing regime and bring it into line with today's data globalisation.