What is a Transfer Impact Assessment (TIA)?

A Transfer Impact Assessment (TIA) is the analysis required under GDPR Chapter V before transferring personal data to a country outside the EU or EEA without an adequacy decision. Following Schrems II, relying on Standard Contractual Clauses alone is insufficient: you must assess whether the destination country's law and practice provide essentially equivalent protection and, where it falls short, apply supplementary measures or stop the transfer. Acuna's data privacy management builds the TIA from the cross-border recipients already recorded on a processing activity and defaults to a higher-risk outcome so a transfer has to earn a lower rating rather than be assumed safe.