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Due to the EU’s new standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries (“SCCs”) being implemented after the UK left the EU, some UK businesses have been left in the difficult position of trying to work out which of the two current sets of SCCs they should use when transferring personal data overseas.

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The MOD’s recent admission that it is responsible for two data breaches involving the inadvertent release of email addresses of 250 Afghan interpreters, many of whom were already in hiding from the Taliban, and another 55 Afghans potentially eligible for relocation to the UK, underlines why the principles underpinning data protection legislation are vital. These data breaches are not just sensitive but potentially fatal for those involved.

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John Edwards, the current New Zealand Privacy Commissioner, has been named as the UK government’s preferred candidate to head the UK data regulator (the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)).

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Having agreed a transition period during which the EU is assessing the UK’s data protection framework with a view to conferring adequacy, we have now come a step closer to be granted adequacy status following the publication of two opinions by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB).

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