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Transfer impact assessment

The exporter's written check that another country's laws do not undermine the standard contractual clauses used to send personal data there. Solaris completed one when it signed the contract with its US analytics provider. Chapter 10

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Parsec is in the US, so the fix also had to make the export of data lawful. The standard contractual clauses are contract terms approved by the European Commission for sending personal data abroad. A transfer impact assessment is the exporter's written check that the other country's laws do not undermine those clauses. European case law requires it.
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