How Researchers Can Cope with the EU's New Restrictions on Data Transfers

In 2021, the European Union made major changes to its rules for international data transfers, changes that make it more much difficult to move research data out of the EU. Individual subject consent is getting heightened scrutiny, while use of the EU's Standard Contractual Clauses has become significantly more onerous, and impossible in some cases. John Conley's presentation at the 2022 Bio-IT World Conference & Expo reviewed these new roadblocks to research and explored the possibilities for overcoming them.