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Adequacy regulations

The government’s approval of a country, or of some recipients in it, as safe for data sent from the UK. They are the simplest route for sending data abroad, because the government has done the checking. The ones for the United States are known as the data bridge. Agreement, clause 7.2 · Chapter 7 · see Data bridge, Transfer risk assessment

Explained in Chapter 7, International Transfers: Data Bridge and UK Addendum, of Data Protection.

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Adequacy regulations are the government’s approval of a place as safe for data. They are the simplest route, because the government has done the checking.
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