Confusion over risk-based approach for transfer impact assessments

07/02/2022 | IAPP

Privacy professionals have been searching tirelessly for some time about how to approach international data transfers. In an IAPP article, McDermott Will & Emery Partner Romain Perray writes that much of the confusion, particularly around the approach to transfer impact assessments under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, is a product of a lack of alignment or consensus among EU data protection authorities. Perray outlines the mixed messaging and why a no risk-based approach for assessments is creating a stir throughout the privacy community.

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