EU-US Privacy Shield

The EU-US Privacy Shield is an agreement between the European Union and the United States to enable some US companies to comply with privacy laws protecting European Union citizens.[1] It was agreed to on 2 February 2016, and is replacing the International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles which were established in 2000, but declared invalid in October 2015 by the European Court of Justice.[2]

The EU-US Privacy Shield is not yet in effect, but drafts texts and more details were being fleshed out early in 2016.[3] The European Commission published a draft “adequacy decision”, declaring the agreement's provisions to be equivalent to the protections offered by EU law. But that decision is still open to challenge by European governments and data protection authorities.[4]

The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party delivered an opinion April 13th 2016, stating that the Privacy Shield offers major improvements compared to the Safe Harbour decisions, but that three major points of concern still remain. They relate to deletion of data, collection of massive amounts of data, and clarification of the new Ombudsperson mechanism.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "The new transatlantic data "Privacy Shield"". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2016-03-26.
  2. ↑ Vera Jourova, "Commissioner Jourová's remarks on Safe Harbour EU Court of Justice judgement before the Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)", 26 October 2015
  3. ↑ "Privacy Shield texts made public". www.praguepost.com. Retrieved 2016-03-26.
  4. ↑ "5 things you need to know about the EU-US Privacy Shield agreement". PCWorld. Retrieved 2016-03-26.
  5. ↑ Chapter 5 of Opinion 01/2016 on the EU – U.S. Privacy Shield draft adequacy decision, the Article 29 Data protection Working Party

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