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In a year that saw the use of US-EU Privacy Shield invalidated
and the qualified survival of the heavily-utilised Standard
Contractual Clauses as well as the release of new draft Standard
Contractual Clauses, 2020 certainly packed a punch on the issue of
international data transfers.
This was against the backdrop of the expiration of the UK-EU
transition period which, if left unaddressed, would have meant that
the UK would be treated as third country for the purposes of GDPR.
No one was quite sure what was going to happen but we predicted in