The European Commission and the US are finalizing the content of a commercial data-sharing agreement, which will affect the way businesses store and transfer data to third parties. A final deal is expected later this summer. Sources: here and here. The agreement is supposed to reform the ‘Safe Harbor’ agreement in order to ensure adequate levels […]
On December 19, 2019, ECJ’s Advocate General (“AG”)Saugmandsgaard Øe delivered his opinion in case Case C‑311/18. In particular, the AG notes that the request for a preliminary ruling submitted by the High Court of Ireland (‘the High Court’) relates to one of the forms that the “appropriate safeguards” may take: a contract between the exporter and the importer […]
On July 9, 2019, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) heard oral arguments on a landmark case concerning Facebook’s transfer of personal data from the EU to the US on the basis of the currently utilized “standard contractual clauses” (SCCs) mechanism. The CJEU’s decision — will have tangible consequences for businesses performing data transfers from […]
The report consists of three papers and one executive summary. The Report spells our the “the legal impacts of withdrawal” in the Executive summary and in paper I. The Report also discusses the consequences of Brexit on data protection: We consider, were the UK to remain in the EU, that the new General Data Protection […]
Interesting article discussing international data transfer between Europe and the U.S. Abstract: “In Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner, the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated the EU-US Safe Harbour arrangement allowing personal data to be transferred to the US. The judgment affirms the fundamental right to data protection, defines an adequate level of […]
In its meeting of April 13, 2016 the WP29 issued a 57 pages opinion on the draft adequacy decision that the EU Commission made available on February 29, 2016. Together with the draft adequacy decision, the Commission disclosed a package of documents (including correspondence with its American counterparts). In order to give an opinion on […]
The Article 29 Working Party (WP29), on February 29, 2016, issued a statement on the Commission’s draft adequacy decision and the legal documents of the Privacy Shield. While welcoming the draft decision and those documents, the WP29 warns about the need to carefully analyze the material. In particular, the WP29 — divided in subgroups — […]
On February 3, 2016, Article 29 Working Party (WP29) met to discuss the consequences of the European Court of Justice’s ruling of October 6, 2015, which declared the old Safe Harbor framework invalid (see here for more information). WP29 welcomed the recent EU-U.S. announcement that the “Privacy Shield” will substitute the old “Safe Harbour” (see here). However, it […]
On October 23, 2015, FTC Commissioner Julie Brill gave the keynote at the Amsterdam Privacy Conference. According to her talk, the EU Court of Justice (ECJ) recent decision to hold Safe Harbour decision invalid (see here) is an opportunity to improve privacy laws on both sides of the Atlantic. The ECJ decision highlighted “the need to have an […]
Tags: DATA PROTECTION, INTERNATIONAL DATA PROTECTION, US PRIVACY
On October 20, 2015, the House of Representatives moved to the Senate a bipartisan bill, the Judicial Redress Act of 2015, which would extend some of the protections of the Privacy Act of 1974 to citizens of certain foreign countries so that they could pursue their privacy rights in US courts. More information on the rights set […]