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Data bridge

The everyday name for the UK’s adequacy regulations for the United States. It covers only US companies on the DPF List with the UK Extension, and only the kinds of data their entry covers. Tennerby’s notice wrongly said it covered care workers’ data. Record A, paragraph 3 · Chapter 7 · see Adequacy regulations, DPF List, UK Extension

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

How it comes up, in Chapter 7
The adequacy regulations for the US are known as the data bridge. The bridge does not cover every company there. It covers only those that have signed up to a scheme, the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
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