How Guernsey creates a distinct data protection profile keeping its ties with both the UK and the EU

Privacy Paths

Guernsey is an independent island jurisdiction located between the United Kingdom and France. In this podcast, Emma Martins, Guernsey’s Data Protection Commissioner, speaks to Valerie Taylor and Stewart Dresner about this Channel Island’s adequacy declaration from the EU, and its importance for its digital economy of retaining free and safe data transfers between Guernsey, the UK and the EU.
The Commissioner does not see privacy and innovation as a zero sum game and is confident that it is possible to incorporate both values into products and services. She deploys fines and other enforcement tools when necessary but has recently launched Project Bijou, a human-centred method for incorporating privacy values into both everyday personal life and work. Find out how Guernsey balances the gravitational pull between the UK and the EU.