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Data Transfer
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Privacy Compliance & Data Security
Council of Europe Suggests Convention 108+ as Schrems II Data Transfer Solution
By Odia Kagan
"Convention 108+ (Convention 108 as amended by the protocol) is set to become the international standard on privacy and data protection in the digital age, and represents a viable tool…
Inside Privacy
Swiss Federal Data Protection Authority Removes the US from its List of Adequate Countries
By Dan Cooper, Anna Sophia Oberschelp de Meneses
On September 8, 2020, the Swiss Federal Supervisory Authority (“Swiss SA”) issued a position paper stating that Swiss companies can no longer rely on the Swiss-US Privacy Shield Framework to…
Dickinson Law News
Irish Regulator Calls Facebook’s EU-US Data Transfer Mechanism into Question
By arastellidickinsonlaw-com-dickinson-mackaman-t
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland sent a preliminary order to Facebook ordering a suspension of data transfers from the EU to the US. This suspension order comes off…
Iowa Cybersecurity Law Blog
Irish Regulator Calls Facebook’s EU-US Data Transfer Mechanism into Question
By arastellidickinsonlaw-com-dickinson-mackaman-t
The Data Protection Commission (DPC) in Ireland sent a preliminary order to Facebook ordering a suspension of data transfers from the EU to the US. This suspension order comes off…
Inside Cybersecurity & Privacy Law
Personal Data Transfers to the US and Other Non-EEA Countries
By Björn Vollmuth, Dr. Guido Zeppenfeld, LLM, Dr. Ulrich Worm
On 16 July 2020, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") examined the validity of the European Commission’s Privacy Shield Decision (Decision 2016/1250 on the adequacy of the…
Data Protection Report
Schrems II: recent developments – waiting is harder
By Marcus Evans, Janine Regan (UK)
In the immediate aftermath of the Schrems II judgement, Bruno Gencarelli (Head of the International data flows and protection unit at the European Commission) said that “Schrems II is data…
Byte Back
Switzerland’s DPA Concludes that Swiss-US Privacy Shield Does Not Provide Adequate Level of Protection
By David Stauss [Former Attorney]
The fallout from the Schrems II judgment continued on Tuesday with an announcement from Switzerland’s Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) that the Swiss-US Privacy Shield regime “does not…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield No Longer Considered Adequate by Swiss DPA
On September 8, 2020, the Swiss Data Protection Authority announced in a position statement that it no longer considers the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield adequate for the purposes of transfers of…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
CIPL and DSCI Publish Report on Enabling U.S.-India Data Transfers
The Centre for Information Policy Leadership at Hunton and the Data Security Council of India have published a report on "Enabling Accountable Data Transfers from India to the United States…
Privacy & Information Security Law Blog
EDPB Creates Taskforces on Complaints and Supplementary Measures for Data Transfers Following Schrems II Decision
On September 4, 2020, the European Data Protection Board announced that it established two taskforces following the judgment of the CJEU in the Schrems II case.