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European Court invalidates US Privacy Shield and questions blanket use of Standard Contractual Clauses

21 July 202017 July 2020 by Rob Bratby

Schrems II disrupts data export from EU: on 16 July 2020, the European Court of Justice decided, overturning the 2016 Privacy Shield Decision of the European Commission, that the US Privacy Shield did not, and does not, provide an adequate level of protection for the transfer of personal data from the EU to the US.

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