European privacy law is a bold new world for U.S. businesses doing business in Europe. An October Court of Justice ruling struck down the Safe Harbor arrangement which had governed E.U.-U.S. data transfer transactions for...more
6/8/2016
/ Binding Corporate Rules ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Facebook ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
Google ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Right to Be Forgotten ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
Surveillance ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
The U.S. and EU are one step closer to implementing the new EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. On March 1, 2016, the European Commission and U.S. Department of Commerce announced the release of the legal texts that will put in place...more
United States and European Union officials have reached a last-minute agreement in an attempt to salvage the US-EU Data Transfer Safe Harbor, nearly four months after the European Court of Justice issued an opinion...more
2/4/2016
/ Data Protection Authority ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Surveillance ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
A major European court has just pulled the rug out from under nearly 5,000 US companies, snatching away the relative business certainty of the Data Transfer Safe Harbor, and maybe the safety of standard contract clauses and...more
10/7/2015
/ Binding Corporate Rules ,
Data Collection ,
Data Privacy ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Data Security ,
Edward Snowden ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
European Commission ,
European Court of Justice (ECJ) ,
Facebook ,
International Data Transfers ,
National Security Agency (NSA) ,
Personal Data ,
Personally Identifiable Information ,
SCC ,
Surveillance ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework