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On May 25, 2016, Schrem’s website “Europe v Facebook” (website collecting information regarding class actions against Facebook) released a press update according to which the Irish Data Protection Commissioner may refer another issue to the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) i.e., according to the website, whether “Facebook can continue to transfer data from the […]

On May 18, 2016, the European American Chamber of Commerce sponsored a discussion the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework (Safe Harbor 2.0). The panel discussed the steps that brought to the agreement between the EU Commission and US Government. More information to this regard is available at http://www.technethics.com… The panel then discussed the key contents of the Privacy Shield. […]

by Jonathan Armstrong, Gayle McFarlane, André Bywater As anticipated the Article 29 Working Party (often known as WP29), a group of the EU’s data protection regulators met in Brussels today to discuss the European Commission’s Privacy Shield scheme, the proposed replacement for Safe Harbor. As we had anticipated in our earlier alerts WP29 decided that in their view […]

As anticipated the Article 29 Working Party (often known as WP29), a group of the EU’s data protection regulators met in Brussels today to discuss the European Commission’s Privacy Shield scheme, the proposed replacement for Safe Harbor. As we had anticipated in our earlier alerts WP29 decided that in their view Privacy Shield does not […]

After the October 6, 2015, European Court of Justice’s annulment of the Safe Harbor decision of adequacy (Maximilian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner), the European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) gave businesses until January 31, 2016, for the start of enforcement of the Schrems’ decision (see here). The Safe Harbor Scheme had been used for almost 15 years as […]

After the October 6, 2015, European Court of Justice’s annulment of the Safe Harbor decision of adequacy (Maximilian Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner), the European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) gave businesses until January 31, 2016, for the start of enforcement of the Schrems’ decision (see here). The Safe Harbor Scheme had been used for almost 15 years as the […]

February 2, 2016 – After the expiration of the DPAs’ deadline of January 31, 2016, for the start of enforcement of the Schrems’ decision (see here), the EU Commission announces that it had a deal with the US Government for a new “Safe Harbor”. See more here February 3, 2016 – Article 29 Working Party […]

On February 23, 2016, the European American Chamber of Commerce (EACC) hosted an interesting EU-US Privacy Roundtable with Privacy Activist Max Schrems, founder of the group Europe v. Facebook. The panel started by providing a brief overview of the developments in data privacy laws. It also explained the judiciary path that brought to the judgment […]

In a few words, a fair cross-border procedure to bring personal data outside the Economic European Area to third countries, needs the adoption of the measures exhaustively listed in 95/46/CE Directive: one of them was Safe Harbor, (as adequacy decision of the European Commission)   – http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/international-transfers/adequacy/index_en.htm – struck down by Court of Justice of […]

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 […]