The Centre for Information Policy Leadership submitted a white paper to the European Commission as the branch continues its work to update standard contractual clauses for international transfers, according to a post from Hunton Andrews Kurth's Privacy & Information Security Law Blog. The white paper focuses on the challenges organizations face when they use existing SCCs and how these issues can be overcome by updating them to align with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. The CIPL’s recommendations for updating SCCs include ensuring they are adapted to fit multiparty and multiprocessing situations and that the broad territorial scope of the GDPR should be considered when the SCCs are overhauled.
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