The Privacy Shield has been in place since August 2016. However, compliance with the framework has been discussed since then again and again. Now, the EU has warned the US that it is about time to comply with the shield before its next review in October.
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The Privacy Shield celebrates its first birthday – and the European Commission is quite happy with it so far. This shows the first annual report which has just been released by the Commission.
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There are only a few ‘legitimate’ ways to transfer personal data from the EU/EEA to a so-called ‘unsafe’ third country. In the last years – and especially since the Safe Harbor framework has been declared invalid by the European Court of Justice two years ago - almost all of those ways have been criticized. Will the Standard Contractual Clauses remain valid?
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The EU-US Privacy Shield is just a bit more than 6 months old and already has been subject of so many controversial discussions. With signing an executive order on 25 January, the new US President Trump challenged the framework even more…
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Finally, the U.S. and the European Union have agreed on the final changes to the new data transfer framework - and the European Commission also gave its "go" two weeks ago. But what does this mean now for businesses in Europe and the US?
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Data transfers to so-called "unsafe third countries" have been an issue for a long time now - Safe Harbor has never been a good mechanism, but since it has been officially declared invalid by the European Court of Justice last October, companies have almost nothing to rely on anymore…
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On April 13, the Article 29 Working Party announced that their 58-page opinion about the proposed EU-US Privacy Shield framework is now available. In sum, there are a lot of improvements since Safe Harbor but also a lot of of concerns.
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"Safe Harbor" is dead - long live "Safe Harbor"? Yes, EU and US have agreed on a new framework called "US-EU-Privacy shield". But not everyone is happy with this new framework…
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