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
8/16/2016
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Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Data Collection ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
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European Commission ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Model Contracts ,
Personal Data ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
US Department of State ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
On February 2, 2016, the European Commission and the U.S. Department of Commerce reached an accord on a new transatlantic data transfer protocol. Nicknamed the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, the framework would replace the...more