Privacy Commissioner John Edwards recently spoke to the Association of Southeast Asian (ASEAN) Working Group on Digital Data Governance. The group had been discussing the use of the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for data transfers between EU and non-EU countries.

The Privacy Act 2020 introduces a change when sending personal information overseas.

In a move that signals the European Union’s (EU) intention to establish trade agreements with Asia Pacific partners, the EU has formally recognised Japan as having an adequate level of data protection to that of EU countries.

The importance of international collaboration in privacy and data protection continues to increase. Our news feeds and inboxes have been filled with the new European data protection regulations, the GDPR, in recent months, as well as compliance and enforcement issues over data giants who cross borders and collect personal information from billions of people.