PlayStation may transfer your personal data to other countries, including the US, where privacy laws may be weaker than in your home country.
Your PlayStation data may be processed in countries with weaker privacy laws than your own, meaning the protections you have at home may not fully apply to how your data is handled once transferred.
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Compare across platforms →For users in countries with strong data protection laws (such as the EU), transferring data to the US or other jurisdictions without adequate protections could expose their personal information to reduced legal safeguards.
1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: GDPR Chapter V (Arts. 44–49) strictly regulates transfers of personal data to third countries, requiring an adequacy decision (Art. 45), Standard Contractual Clauses (Art. 46(2)(c)), or other approved transfer mechanism. The EU-US Data Privacy Framework (adequacy decision, July 2023) provides a current transfer mechanism for US transfers but remains subject to legal challenge. UK GDPR Chapter V and the UK International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) govern UK transfers. Brazil LGPD Art. 33 imposes similar requirements. 2)
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