In 1995 the US and EU started working on a cross border data transfer agreement. First came Safe Harbor (2000). In 2015 the EU Court of Justice invalidated this agreement in what is known as the Schrems I decision. In 2016, the US and EU agreed, in principle to Privacy Shield, a replacement for Safe […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is not a done deal yet, but it is a very interesting development and one, if it holds, that could have significant impact on a lot of countries, including the U.S. Over the last few years, a number of countries have enacted laws that allow their intelligence apparatuses to override many privacy laws and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) rules that the 15 year old Safe Harbor agreement which allowed companies to transfer data between the E.U. and the U.S. was invalid. Effective immediately. Then the Article 29 Working Group (who is responsible for Safe Harbor) met and said that if the E.U. and U.S. don’t come […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Article 29 Working Party (WP29), the group that is responsible for dealing with the fallout from the European Court of Justice invalidation of the Safe Harbor Agreement, met for the first time since the decision to start sorting things out. For companies moving data between the U.S. and the E.U., there were some good things […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you (all 3 of you) who follow European privacy law, you can skip this post. The rest may find it interesting. Max Schrems, who was an Austrian law student and now a lawyer has been battling Facebook in particular and claiming that they are violating E.U. law by their various privacy policies. […]
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