A blog article by lawyer W. Kuan Hon considers additional safeguards to legitimise transfers of personal data outside in the wake of the Schrems II ruling by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), which struck down the EU-US Privacy Shield framework. The article highlights the role that encryption can play while data is at rest and in transit and points towards the potential for homomorphic encryption to enable data to be worked on without decrypting it. Working with data in a "trusted execution environment" (TEE) such as this safeguards the data from outside viewing or interference.
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