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ARTICLE · 01 JULY 2024

International Transfers Of Personal Data After Schrems II: Practical Compliance Steps

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart
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Organizations must ensure compliance with GDPR and Schrems II by mapping data flows, assessing third-country laws, and implementing safeguards for personal data transfers, using frameworks like the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework for streamlined compliance.

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Nicola McCrudden
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It's been a busy few years of mapping data flows, assessing third-country laws and practices, repapering contractual clauses, and implementing technical and organisational measures as private and public organisations undertook to meet a 2022 hard deadline for ensuring that transfers of personal data of individuals in the European Union (EU) complied with the 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and European Court of Justice Case C-311/18 (the Schrems II ruling) and to address the impacts of a March 2024 compliance deadline for transfers of UK personal data.

This article provides a refresher on controller obligations for both private and public organisations when it comes to handling individuals' personal data.

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