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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 […]

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 — […]

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 8, 2016, the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL) issued a formal notice to Facebook to comply within three months with the French Data Protection Act. According to CNIL, among other violations, Facebook is breaching French Data Protection Laws by transferring “personal data to the United States on the basis of Safe Harbour, although the […]

  According to these sources (see here in Spanish and here in English), in November 2015, the Agencia Española de Proteccion de Datós (AEPD) sent a notice to all Spanish companies known to transfer data to third countries. The AEDP asked those companies to cease international data transfers after the European Court of Justice held the Safe Harbour […]

The vast difference between the views of privacy held in the US and in the EU is illustrated by the divergent paths of two prominent data privacy actions.  In the EU, the action was brought by Max Schrems as a complaint before the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, claiming that Facebook’s transfer of user data to […]

The vast difference between the views of privacy held in the US and in the EU is illustrated by the divergent paths of two prominent data privacy actions.  In the EU, the action was brought by Max Schrems as a complaint before the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, claiming that Facebook’s transfer of user data to […]

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 […]