Today marks the first anniversary of the CJEU’s “Schrems II” ruling which invalidated the European Commission’s Privacy Shield adequacy decision concerning the transfer of data to the US. Despite an urgent need to reach a deal on transatlantic data flows for economic and geopolitical reasons, few if any concrete results have been seen to date. As stressed earlier this year by European Commissioner Didier Reynders and Věra Jourová, Vice President of ...
On 5 July 2018 MEPs passed a resolution (303 votes to 223, 29 abstentions) to suspend Privacy Shield starting from 1 September 2018 until the United States is in full compliance with the terms of the agreement. Members of the European Parliament in doing so have called upon US authorities to remove companies that misuse personal ...
Earlier this month MEPs from the Civil Liberties Committee brought attention to the necessity of better monitoring Privacy Shield by way of a Motion for a Resolution to wind up the debate on the statement by the Commission pursuant to Rule 123(2) of the Rules of Procedure on the adequacy of the protection afforded by the EU-US ...
Today the European Commission published its first annual report on Privacy Shield, which is of fundamental importance with respect to international data transfers, having implications for both the EU and US economies. After one year, the Commission has confirmed that Privacy Shield is fit for its purpose, protecting the data of subjects whose data is ...
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