Organisations that make international transfers of personal data have undergone significant challenges and changes over the last few years. With the invalidation of the Privacy Shield agreement in 2020 and the introduction of...more
9/26/2024
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Consent ,
Corporate Fines ,
Data Breach ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Extraterritoriality Rules ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Regulatory Oversight ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
Third-Party Service Provider ,
UK
On March 25, 2022, the European Union (EU) announced that the United States and the EU had reached an agreement in principle to replace the EU-U.S Privacy Shield framework, which the European Court of Justice (CJEU) struck...more
4/1/2022
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Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ,
Data Collection ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Data Protection Board (EDPB) ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) recently declared that the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield is invalid because it does not provide an adequate level of protection for the transfer of personal data from the European...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
7/17/2020
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EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
International Data Transfers ,
Personal Data ,
Safe Harbors ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
Surveillance ,
U.S. Commerce Department
On October 18, 2017, the European Commission published its report and supporting documents regarding its first annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (Privacy Shield), which sets forth procedures and safeguards for...more
As employers catch their breaths after an action-packed 2016, they need to gear up for another turbulent year for international data privacy issues in 2017. The top five international data privacy issues follow....more
On January 11, 2017, the Swiss Federal Council and the U.S. International Trade Administration (ITA) announced that the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield will replace the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework to permit U.S. businesses to...more
On July 12, 2016, the European Commission formally adopted the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield to replace the previously invalidated Safe Harbor Framework as an adequate method of transferring personal data from the European Economic...more
7/14/2016
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Employer Liability Issues ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Ireland ,
Personal Data ,
Privacy Policy ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Self-Certification ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
Surveillance ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
On June 24, 2016, the European Commission announced that it had reached a final agreement with the United States on the terms of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, which will permit U.S. companies to transfer the personal data of...more
6/28/2016
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Data Retention ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
International Data Transfers ,
Ombudsman ,
Personal Data ,
Popular ,
Surveillance ,
UK ,
UK Brexit ,
Young Lawyers
The people of the United Kingdom have spoken on the issue of whether the United Kingdom should leave or remain in the European Union (EU), and by a narrow margin have decided to leave. In fact, by region, the voters of...more
6/24/2016
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EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
Financial Markets ,
Foreign Subsidiaries ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Finance ,
International Labor Laws ,
London Stock Exchange ,
Member State ,
Popular ,
Referendums ,
Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) ,
UK ,
UK Brexit
On February 29, 2016, the European Commission (EC) and U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) published a series of documents providing details for the implementation of the new EU-US Privacy Shield framework for the transfer of...more
3/7/2016
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Binding Corporate Rules ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
European Commission ,
International Data Transfers ,
Ombudsman ,
Personal Data ,
Schrems I & Schrems II ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
Surveillance ,
U.S. Commerce Department ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
On February 3, 2016, the Article 29 Working Party, the EU body representing the data protection authorities (DPA) of each EU member country, announced that all of the DPAs across the EU have agreed to extend the current...more
2/5/2016
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Binding Corporate Rules ,
Data Protection Authority ,
Enforcement Actions ,
EU ,
EU-US Privacy Shield ,
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ,
International Data Transfers ,
Moratorium ,
Standard Contractual Clauses ,
US-EU Safe Harbor Framework
On February 2, 2016, in a meeting conducted in Brussels, the European Commission and the United States agreed on a new framework for transatlantic data flows. With all the negative connotations surrounding it, the name “Safe...more