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28 January 2024 is Data Protection Day (or Data Privacy Day outside of Europe), which marks the anniversary of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108. Data Privacy Day encourages the global community to think about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data, and enabling trust. In an increasingly connected and digitized world, where data protection, privacy and cybersecurity regulation are rapidly evolving, the work of the global data community is more vital, and more challenging,…

In Brief On February 24, 2023, the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) released the final version of the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and SCC Measures for the cross-border transfer of personal data under the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL). The SCCs provide a mechanism for businesses to transfer personal information from mainland China to other jurisdictions. China’s SCCs closely mirror the EU’s SCCs, which were updated in 2021, but feature several important distinctions described in…