ISC2 Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) Practice Question
A U.S.-based SaaS provider has signed a contract with a hospital group in Munich. The service will store and process electronic health records that identify individual patients. Daily backups will be replicated to the provider's primary cloud region in Northern Virginia. Before the first transfer occurs, the legal team must determine which privacy law imposes the strictest conditions on exporting this data from Germany to the United States. Which legislation should they examine first?
EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)
U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
Because the data belongs to residents of an EU member state and contains personally identifiable information about health, the export is subject to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). GDPR places strict limits on transfers of personal data to non-EU countries unless an adequacy decision, Standard Contractual Clauses, or another approved safeguard is in place. HIPAA, GLBA, and PIPEDA govern health, financial, and general personal data in their respective jurisdictions, but none of them restrict the outbound transfer of German patient data.
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