About: data adequacy
UK to reform data protection, throwing EU adequacy ruling into doubt
The UK’s legislative agenda for the next year includes a data reform bill that could cast doubts on the future of the EU’s data adequacy ruling, the decision that continued to facilitate data transfers across the Channel after the UK left the bloc in January 2020.
EU privacy watchdogs’ important caveats for data transfers with South Korea
The EU data protection authorities issued a non-binding opinion on Monday (27 September) on the level of adequacy of South Korea’s privacy law compared to EU rules, providing an overall positive assessment that some analysts said fell short of expectations.
UK launches global data plans to become a ‘technological superpower’
The UK government announced plans on Thursday (26 August) for international data partnerships and a more innovation-friendly privacy law, which could collide with the EU data protection standards and jeopardise data flows between London and mainland Europe.
Digital Brief powered by ITI: EU-US summit, no one-stop shop, UK adequate
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. “The US and the EU share the same values around privacy, its protection and democracies and open society, which...
Digital Brief powered by Google: Parliament bashing US data transfers, Ireland’s GDPR enforcement, UK adequacy decision
Welcome to EURACTIV’s Digital Brief, your weekly update on all things digital in the EU. You can subscribe to the newsletter here. “The Commission must not repeat the same mistakes by negotiating and signing off on data transfer agreements with third...
MEPs seek extension on response to Commission’s UK data adequacy agreement
EU lawmakers from the Renew group have submitted a request to the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee to hold off on adopting a position on the UK's adequacy for EU personal data transfers until the EU's data protection watchdog has weighed in on the plans.
Don’t wage battle against the City, UK bank governor urges EU
The Governor of the Bank of England, Andrew Bailey, on Tuesday (10 February) urged the EU not to wage a regulatory battle against the UK on financial services, warning that “a world in which the EU dictates and determines what rules and standards we have in the UK is not going to work.”
UK firms face hefty compliance costs without EU data deal, report warns
British firms face a bill of up to £1.6 billion if Boris Johnson’s government fails to convince the EU to grant an adequacy decision allowing dataflows to continue, according to a new report published on Monday (23 November).
Commission must refuse UK data adequacy, rights group says
The European Commission should not grant the UK a data adequacy agreement as part of its ongoing assessment of the country's data protection landscape, an Irish civil rights group has said.