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Authors discuss the Advocate-General conclusions in the Schrems case. According to the article, the opinion holds that “national data protection regulators do have the power to undertake such investigations [EU-US data transfers] and suspend data transfers”. The full text is available http://www.technethics.com/gayle-mcfarlane-and-andre-bywater-european-court-weltimmo-ruling-on-the-jurisdiction-of-data-protection-regulators/ Originally published in http://www.corderycompliance.com…

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 […]

Vera Jourova, the EU Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender Equality, declared the EU wants to find a clear agreement on the Safe-Harbor Program soon. According to the Commissioner, the EU is seeking to resolve some key issues with the U.S. (in particular: “limited and clearly defined number of exceptions for law enforcement and security agencies’ access […]

On March 24, 2015, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) heard arguments on case C-362/14. The ECJ is called to decide on whether national judges are “absolutely bound” by a company’s declaration to participate in the Safe Harbor, or whether they could still conduct their own investigations to determine if personal data are protected according […]

Author describes how German data protection authorities deal with safe harbor and data processing in the USA. The full text is available at http://www.corderycompliance…

German data watchdogs met in Berlin on January 28, 2015, to discuss the transfer of data between the EU and the USA. The leaders debated on the validity of the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework in the post-Snowden era. The details of the discussion are available at https://www.huntonprivacyblog… More information is available at http://www.zdnet… The conference’s program (in […]

The US Federal Trade Commission announced yesterday that it had agreed to settle its investigation into TRUSTe; a significant US provider of privacy certifications. TRUSTe offered seals which tried to reassure consumers that a business’s privacy practices were in order. They are used particularly by multi-national businesses to assist them in complying with the US-EU […]

Irish High Court, Case 2013 765 JR, June 18, 2014 On June 18, 2014, the Irish High Court referred to the EU Court of Justice a number of questions concerning the application of the Safe Harbor principles regarding cross-border transfer of private data, the key issue being whether national judges are “absolutely bound” by a […]

The author discusses the question referred by the Irish High Court to the European Court of Justice (Case 2013 765 JR) of whether “a national data protection authority has to blindly follow the Commission’s Decision (Safe Harbor)” or if such authority is able to carry out its own review of a third country’s level of data […]

The author discusses the question referred by the Irish High Court to the European Court of Justice (Case 2013 765 JR) of whether “national data protection authorities in Europe may disregard the Safe Harbor decision of the European Commission when assessing whether the U.S. recipient of data ensures an adequate level of data protection required under […]