Privacy Shield
GDPR FAIL: US Firm ‘Profiles Half the World’ — it’s Max Schrems Again
NYOB accuses TeleSign, Proximus and BICS of misusing phone users’ private data. Reputation scoring = privacy violation? ...
Facebook Fined $1.3B — Zuckerberg Furious in GDPR Fight
GDPR Move for Mark’s Money: No legal way to move Europeans’ data to the US since 2015. Cloud industry better take note ...
US, EU Tentatively Agree on Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework
On March 25, 2022, the United States and the European Union tentatively agreed to a framework for the protection of the privacy of EU residents, and to act as a workaround from ...
Facebook’s Threat to Exit Europe—EU Waves Buh-Bye
Meta, Facebook’s parent, warned investors that it might need to pull out of Europe. Here’s why … ...
Post-Privacy Shield Guidance From French Court
For U.S. companies scrambling to protect cross-border data transfer after the Court of Justice of the European Union invalidated the Privacy Shield, a recent ruling by a French court could provide some ...
EDPB Wants Schrems II Compliance Now, but Clearer Guidance is Months Away
The European Data Protection Board (“EDPB”) plans to release further guidance in the coming months on specific steps that companies can take to export personal data from the European Economic Area to ...
Another Privacy Shield Bites the Dust
While not outright eliminating the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield, the Swiss Data Protection Authority, the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), announced in a position paper on September 8, 2020 that he no longer ...
Supplementing SCCs to Solve Surveillance Shortfalls
This article was originally published in the IAPP Daily Dashboard on August 19, 2020. By invalidating the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield but not rejecting wholesale the use of standard contractual clauses to transfer ...
Amazon Echo Exploit, Privacy Shield, Capital One Data Breach Update
In episode 134 for August 17th 2020: Details on new critical vulnerabilities found in Amazon Echo devices, what the end of the Privacy Shield framework means EU citizens personal data, and new ...
Privacy Shield Dies, SCCs Survive (With a Catch): CJEU
Today the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) ruled that: The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework (“Privacy Shield”) is no longer a valid mechanism for exportation of personal data from the ...
