Privacy shield

EU and US start work on enhanced Privacy Shield: Mr Schrems to be persuaded…

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On 10 August 2020, Following the European Court’s Schrems II judgment invalidating the US Privacy Shield (and calling into question the legal basis for other transatlantic data transfers), the EU Commission and US Department of commerce issued a short, joint statement: “The U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission have initiated discussions to evaluate …

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Exporting data from the EU after Schrems II: what to do now

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As previously discussed, the European Court of Justice’s recent Schrems II decision both (i) invalidated the US privacy shield; and (ii) threw into question alternative justifications for the export of personal data from the EU to the US. Whilst there is yet to be a substantive response from the European Commission, initial reactions from the …

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

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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.