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The U.S. Departments of Justice and Commerce, as well as the European Commission recently launched the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”), marking a significant shift from the previous frameworks such as Safe Harbor and...more
On the heels of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), another bridge has been built across the Atlantic to streamline data transfers between businesses. In July, the European Commission adopted its much-anticipated...more
On July 10, 2023, the European Commission concluded that the US ensures an adequate level of protection for personal data transferred from the European Union to US companies under the new EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Based...more
On July 10, 2023, the European Commission adopted its long-awaited adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“Adequacy Decision”). This ends a three-year journey to set up a successor to the EU-U.S. Privacy...more
As discussed in a previous advisory, the European Union’s supreme court, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (Privacy Shield) in its July 16, 2020 decision in...more
U.S. companies will face restrictions on transferring and storing information about European residents after the European Court of Justice ruled that such transfers exposed Europeans to American government surveillance...more
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has issued its much anticipated FAQs on the Court of Justice of the European Union's (CJEU) Schrems II decision. This document does not yet contain the "supplementary measures" that...more
The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield program is invalid, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) declared on July 16, 2020, in the matter of Data Protection Commissioner v. Facebook Ireland and Schrems (C-311/18) (Schrems...more
The Court of Justice of the European Union just ruled that an important data protection scheme established between the European Union and the United States is invalid, calling into question many aspects of important data...more
The Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) on July 16, 2020, invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield as an approved mechanism for transferring personal data from the European Union to the United States. This decision...more
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated Decision 2016/1250 on the adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-US Privacy Shield, ruling, among other things, that U.S. domestic law...more
On July 16, 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) announced its judgment in the so-called Schrems II case (Case C-311/18), declaring that the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield is invalid because it does not provide an...more
The EU Commission concluded its third annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and found that it continues to provide an adequate level of protection for EU personal data. The program was created as a mechanism to...more
On October 23, 2019, the European Commission published its report after its third annual review on the functioning of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. The Privacy Shield, which became operational in August 2016, details procedures...more
In anticipation of Brexit, the U.S. Department of Commerce (“DOC”) has published steps it expects to be taken by businesses that rely on Privacy Shield to transfer personal data from the UK to the U.S....more
In its second annual review, the European Commission notes that the Privacy Shield scheme provides adequate protection for personal data but improvements are still in order. ...more
The European Commission recently issued an overall positive review in its first annual report on the E.U. – U.S. Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”), after evaluating the Privacy Shield in its joint review with the US last...more
On October 18, 2017, the EU Commission released its report of the first annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework. The Privacy Shield is the successor of the Safe Harbor Agreement which was invalidated by the...more
It’s been almost one year since the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (Privacy Shield) came into existence. Its upcoming annual review in September by the European Commission (Commission) and the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) – its...more
Businesses have now had four months to get to grips with the new EU-U.S. Privacy Shield for transatlantic data transfers after it came into force in August 2016. As the New Year looms, what are the emerging trends we have...more
Digital Rights Ireland, an Irish privacy advocacy group, has filed the first legal challenge to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, the Trans-Atlantic agreement reached earlier this year to permit the lawful transfer of personal data...more
The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”) is already under challenge before the European courts, after having been approved only some months ago by the European Commission (“EU Commission”). The European courts’...more
On August 1, 2016, the U.S. Department of Commerce began accepting self-certification applications for the new EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. In the month that has followed over 100 companies (including Microsoft, Oracle...more
The European Commission recently determined that the Privacy Shield Framework is adequate to legitimize data transfers under EU law, providing a replacement for the Safe Harbor program. The Privacy Shield is designed to...more
With the August 1st start of the Privacy Shield, the European Commission’s new and long-awaited transatlantic data transfer agreement with the U.S., businesses that had previously relied on the invalidated Safe Harbor scheme...more