Today, the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology announced further details on the new transatlantic data flow mechanism for UK-to-US personal data transfers. In particular, the UK Secretary of State for Science, Innovation, and Technology today laid new adequacy regulations before the UK Parliament to give effect to the proposed arrangement. The deal, announced “in principle” in June, is a UK extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”), finalised in July. The extension creates a UK-US data bridge, allowing organisations to transfer personal data subject to the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK GDPR”) to participating US organisations.
