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However, the UK will become a third country under the EU GDPR, meaning that personal data may not be transferred to the country unless appropriate safeguards are imposed, or the European Commission performs an adequacy decision on the suitability of British data protection legislation (Chapter V).
Within the context of a series of decisions on the adequacy of the protection of personal data transferred to other countries, [3] the European Commission made a decision in 2000 that the United States' principles did comply with the EU Directive [4] – the so-called Safe Harbor decision. [5]
The European Parliament raised substantial doubts whether the new agreement reached by Ursula von der Leyen actually conforms with EU laws, as it still does not sufficiently protect EU citizens from US mass surveillance and fails to enforce basic human digital rights in the EU. [7]
The IT sector’s industry body has warned the Government that it must not put data flow between the UK and EU at risk with planned reforms. Data protection reforms ‘must protect adequacy ...
A federal data privacy law would open the door for a U.S.-EU adequacy decision under the GDPR. But such a law appears to be a tough sell at the moment.
Soon after this decision, the European Commission and the U.S. Government started talks about a new framework, and on February 2, 2016, they reached a political agreement. [1] The European Commission published the "adequacy decision" draft, declaring principles to be equivalent to the protections offered by EU law. [6]
The UK left the European Union formally in 2020 after a 2016 referendum, commonly known as Brexit. One user wrote, “UK rejoin EU…Finally Big Decision Good News For Everyone.” This claim ...
The main aims of equivalence decisions is, among other, to allow EU authorities to rely on non-EU countries as to their proven equivalent standards,; to reduce/eliminate overlaps in compliance requirements; to make certain services, products or activities acceptable for regulatory purposes in the EU; and to allow for a less burdensome ...