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U.S. companies can now self-certify to permit personal data to freely flow from the Europe to the United States. U.S. organizations can now self-certify their compliance with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) to...more
The European Commission published a very significant adequacy decision last week, which is expected to facilitate transfers of personal information from Europe to the United States. The decision came as part of the...more
On July 10, 1962, NASA launched Telstar 1, the first active communications satellite linking Europe and the United States through live television transmission. Sixty-one years later, on July 10, 2023, the European Commission...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
On July 12, 2016, the European Commission formally adopted the Privacy Shield, a new transatlantic framework for the transfer of personal data from the European Union (EU) and certain countries of the European Economic Area...more
As of, August 1st, 2016, U.S. companies can now join the Safe Harbor successor EU-U.S. Privacy Shield (the “Privacy Shield”) for personal data transfers from the EU to the U.S. This post gives a high level summary of...more
When the new EU-US Privacy Shield was adopted all the way back on the 12th of July, we were quoted in the media discussing the fact that formal legal challenges to it were inevitable. By the time the dust settled enough to...more
Following European Commission adoption of the Privacy Shield on July 12, 2016, and with Privacy Shield self-certification poised to open for business organizations on August 1, 2016 as a replacement for the invalidated...more
Notice Requirements - The Privacy Shield notice requirements are more specific and detailed than what was required by the Safe Harbor regime. Safe Harbor required a privacy policy to provide information on data...more
More than 5,000 companies had taken advantage of the now defunct U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework. Those companies are now considering whether to join the newly approved “Privacy Shield,” and are trying to understand the...more
The EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (the “Directive”) creates the legal framework for national data-protection laws in each EU Member State. The Directive states that personal data may only be transferred to countries...more
On July 12, 2016, the European Commission (“Commission”) formally adopted and released the Privacy Shield Adequacy decision, which will allow certified U.S. companies to transfer EU personal data to the United States. The...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
On July 8, 2016, the Article 31 Committee, comprised of representatives of the European Union (EU) member states, voted to approve a revised Privacy Shield framework that is intended to replace the Safe Harbor framework...more
The EU Commission has formally adopted Privacy Shield and the US Department of Commerce will go live with a new Privacy Shield registration website on August 1. US companies that had been registered under Safe Harbor will...more
Background - The EU Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (the “Directive”) creates the legal framework for national data-protection laws in each EU member state. The Directive states that personal data may only be...more
On Monday, February 29th, the European Commission and U.S. Department of Commerce released a collection of documents summarizing actions taken on both sides of the Atlantic to implement the new Privacy Shield framework. This...more
Yesterday the European Commission released a draft “adequacy decision” on the protection provided by the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield together with the texts that will constitute the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework. Once adopted...more