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Practical Approaches to the EU-US Privacy Shield

This article discusses the corporate impact of the EU-US Privacy Shield and practical approaches to managing global corporate data in the wake of <i>Schrems</i>.

10 minute read January 01, 2017 at 06:04 AM
By
Dan Panitz and H. Bruce Gordon
Practical Approaches to the EU-US Privacy Shield

On July 12, 2016, following the Maximillian Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner decision, ECLI:EU:C:2015:650, CJEU 6 Oct. 2015, Case C-362/14, the EU Commission adopted the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework as replacement for the Safe Harbor Program providing: “Member States shall provide that the transfer to a third country of personal data (by an entity) … may take place only if … the third country in question ensures an adequate level of data protection.”

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