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Article 29 Working Party on the EU-US Privacy Shield:
The EU’s Article 29 Working Party analyzed the final version of the Privacy Shield and issued a statement on July 26, 2016. What does this mean?...more
7/27/2016
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Binding Corporate Rules ,
Data Protection Authority ,
EU ,
EU Directive ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
Key takeaways:
.. The Privacy Shield will now go into effect.
.. The preliminary start date for companies to be certified under the Privacy Shield is August 1, 2016.
.. Expect more challenges to the Privacy Shield...more
After the European Court of Justice invalidated Safe Harbor on October 6, ?2015, the Article 29 Working Party announced in an October 16, 2015 statement that US companies that were Safe Harbor certified had until the end of...more
6/20/2016
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CNIL ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
EU Data Protection Laws ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Facebook ,
France ,
Germany ,
International Data Transfers ,
Ireland ,
Privacy Policy ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
On 29 February the European Commission released its draft adequacy decision about the proposed Privacy Shield, which is intended to replace the invalidated EU-US Safe Harbor. While Microsoft stated on April 11 that they...more
After the invalidation of the Safe Harbor by the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) last November in the Schrems case, negotiations between the European Commission and US authorities led to a new agreement called the EU-US...more
The content of the Privacy Shield was made public yesterday and today.
The new framework dedicated to the EU / US flow of personal data is in fact a combination of several documents issued by the US and the EU....more
3/1/2016
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Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Department of Transportation (DOT) ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
International Data Transfers ,
International Trade Commission (ITC) ,
Personal Data ,
Secretary of State ,
U.S. Commerce Department
In response to the announcement of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, the Article 29 Working Party issued its own statement, the key elements of which are as follows...more