During a press conference held on February 3, 2016, the President of the Article 29 Working Party (“Working Party”) discussed the Working Party’s 2016 action plan concerning the new General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). The action plan lays out the groundwork required to prepare the DPAs for their new role under the GDPR and to […]
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EU Working Party Discusses Data Transfer Framework
Today, the consortium of European data protection authorities, the Article 29 Working Party (“WP29”), released a much awaited statement on the consequences of the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) decision that invalidated the Safe Harbor framework. Companies will be relieved to find that alternative transfer mechanisms, such as Model Contracts or Binding Corporate Rules, are […]
Revised Safe Harbor Agreed: Introducing the New “EU-U.S. Privacy Shield”
European Commission and U.S. officials today announced reaching a “political agreement” on a new Safe Harbor framework. The new framework will be called the “EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.” In a press conference and a press release today, European officials highlighted the following points about the new framework: Limitations on surveillance: Commission officials report that the U.S. […]
Statement from Peter Swire on Safe Harbor Agreement
Peter Swire issued the following statement today following news of a revised Safe Harbor framework. Today the European Union and United States announced a new framework for transatlantic data flows, called the EU-US Privacy Shield. This will update the EU-US Safe Harbor agreement, for which I was part of the negotiating team in 2000. At […]
Examining the Judicial Redress Act
The proposed Judicial Redress Act has recently been touted as a critical step towards developing a revised “Safe Harbor 2.0″ framework. (See our prior posts on Safe Harbor here and here.) This post summarizes the essential provisions of the bill as passed by the House of Representatives and currently pending before the U.S. Senate. As […]