For those of you keeping score at home, it is Max Schrems 2, Facebook 0. On July 16, 2020, thirty-three-year-old Austrian lawyer and privacy advocate, Max Schrems beat Facebook in the European Court of Justice . . . again. In Schrems I in 2015, the ECJ invalidated the US-EU Safe Harbor framework, and last week…
EC Gives Final Approval to Privacy Shield Goes Into Effect August 1 In February, the U.S. and European Commission released details of the new U.S.- EU Privacy Shield to replace the Safe Harbor that was invalidated by the European Court of Justice last year. In the spring the Article 29 Working Party (an organization of EU…
US Forced Back to Negotiating Table on EU Privacy Shield Last fall, the European Court of Justice invalidated the US-EU Safe Harbor program for transfering data between the US and EU nations. The decision was driven in large by the revelations over NSA surveillance. US authorities disputed this finding and former acting Commerce Secretary Cameron…
The U.S. and European Commission have released details of the new U.S.- EU Privacy Shield to replace the Safe Harbor that was invalidated by the European Court of Justice last year. The Privacy Shield moves beyond the Safe Harbor with pledges of more robust enforcement by U.S. authorities; greater transparency obligations on U.S. companies; allowing…
Two days after a January 31st deadline to reach an agreement, the European Commission and the United States have agreed on a new framework for transatlantic data flows: the EU-US Privacy Shield to replace the Safe Harbor program struck down by the European Court of Justice. The new arrangement will include the following…
European Court of Justice Tosses US-EU Safe Harbor Austrian Maximillan Schrems filed a complaint against Facebook to challenge the US-EU Safe Harbor program, relying heavily on revelations about the NSA’s data collection practices. The Irish data protection authority (which regulates Facebook’s European activities), rejected the complaint since, under the US-EU Safe Harbor program the European Commission…
EU Preliminary Ruling Puts US-EU Safe Harbor in Jeopardy A Preliminary Opinion on a challenge to Facebook’s privacy practices has put in question the continued viability of the US-EU Safe Harbor program which permits data transfers between the US and European businesses. FACEBOOK’S EUROPEAN NEMESIS. Austrian Maximillan Schrems has become Facebook’s European nemesis after spending…
US Companies Wary as EU Proposes Single Digital Market Seeking to play catch up with the United States in the online marketplace and recognizing that the fragmented European online marketplace is a major obstacle to doing so, the EU has announced a series of initiatives designed to create a single digital marketplace. The Verge explains:…
EU Court of Justice Invalidates Data Retention Directive The European Union’s highest court struck down a controversial directive that encouraged telecommunication and mobile phone companies to retain users’ private data records for up to two years. The EU’s European Court of Justice invalidated the 2006 EU Data Retention Directive on privacy grounds, noting in its…
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