In a company blog post, Google announced that the Spanish Data Protection Agency, Agencia Española de Protección de Datos, has confirmed the legal protections underpinning G Suite and Google Cloud Platform international data flows adequately meet Spanish regulatory requirements. This follows a decision earlier this year by the EU’s data protection authorities, also known as the Article 29 Working Party, which confirmed that Google Cloud services’ contractual commitments meet the requirements to legally frame transfers of data from the EU to the rest of the world in accordance with the EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC. Customers in Spain need to opt-in to relevant model contract clauses and should notify their relevant transfer to the AEPD’s registry.
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