Module 3 · Chapter 7

International Transfers: Data Bridge and UK Addendum

Personal data may leave the UK only by a route the law allows. This chapter shows what counts as sending data abroad, which routes are open, and how a supplier checks the data stays safe.

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In this chapter

  • What counts as sending personal data abroad
  • The routes the law allows, and which ones the Data Processing Agreement keeps
  • How care workers’ data reached a text company abroad safely

7.1International transfers in one paragraph

Tennerby keeps Corrandale’s data in the UK. Sending it abroad, or letting someone abroad see it, is a transfer. The law allows a transfer only by a set route. Each route aims to keep the data as safe abroad as it is at home.

Tennerby wants a US company to send its shift texts. So it must find a route that covers care workers’ data, and show Corrandale why.

Key point

Corrandale’s data may leave the UK only by a route the law allows. Tennerby must check that the route covers the exact data it sends.

Also in this chapter

  1. What counts as a transfer
  2. Three routes for sending data abroad
  3. The data bridge and “Non-HR Data”
  4. The transfer risk assessment, and a smaller transfer
  5. Your job

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