Privacy Talk | The New Swiss Data Protection Act
The Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Swiss-U.S. Framework) took a significant step to becoming operational this week, when Switzerland officially added the United States to its list of countries that provide “adequate...more
The new framework provides an additional route for personal data transfers from the EEA to the US. On 10 July 2023, the European Commission (EC) took the final step to enable businesses to start relying on the new EU-US...more
As of July 17, 2023, the Data Privacy Framework website and certification mechanism is fully functional and organizations that are approved under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (Framework) may begin taking advantage of...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 July 10, 2023, the EU Commission approved the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“EU-US DPF”) as a valid transfer mechanism for sharing personal data from European Economic Area countries (those in the EU plus Iceland,...more
As 2020 comes to a close, we take this opportunity to look back at some of the more significant developments that we discussed in the blog this year. The first is the EU Court of Justice’s Schrems II decision, finding that...more
This past July, a decision by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down the European Union-United States Privacy Shield framework (EU-U.S. Privacy Shield), one mechanism through which companies could transfer personal...more
The Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) has determined that the Swiss-United States Privacy Shield does not provide an adequate level of data protection for data transfers from Switzerland to the U.S....more
On September 8, 2020, the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) announced that it no longer considers the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield (Swiss Shield) to provide adequate protections for transfers of...more
The fallout from the Schrems II judgment continued on Tuesday with an announcement from Switzerland’s Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) that the Swiss-US Privacy Shield regime “does not provide an...more
The U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC)has updated its Frequently Asked Questions piece on the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield to address questions raised by the the Schrems II decision regarding the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield...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 January 11, 2017, the governments of the United States and Switzerland announced that an agreement had been reached over a Privacy Shield Framework (“Privacy Shield”) that sets out how companies may transfer personal data...more
US companies with employees or clients in Switzerland will be interested to hear that the new Swiss-US Privacy Shield was approved on 11 January. Although Switzerland is not a member of the European Union, its data...more
On January 11, U.S. and Swiss authorities announced final agreement on the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. The Framework defines standards for handling personal data exported from Switzerland to the U.S. and enables U.S....more
On January 11, 2017, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Swiss Federal Council and the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) issued press releases announcing that an agreement has been reached on...more
On January 11, 2017, the Swiss Federal Council announced that a new framework will govern the transfer of personal data from Switzerland to the US. According to the Federal Council, the Swiss-US Privacy Shield Framework...more