EU-US Privacy Shield

The EU-US Privacy Shield is a framework for transatlantic exchanges of personal data for commercial purposes between the European Union and the United States.[1] One of its purposes is to enable US companies to more easily receive personal data from EU entities under EU privacy laws meant to protect European Union citizens.[2] The EU-US Privacy Shield is a replacement for the International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles which were declared invalid by the European Court of Justice in October 2015.[3]

Background history

In October 2015 the European Court of Justice declared the previous framework called the International Safe Harbor Privacy Principles invalid.[3] Soon after this decision the European Commission and the U.S. Government started talks about a new framework and on 2 February 2016 they reached a political agreement.[1] The European Commission published a draft “adequacy decision”, declaring principles to be equivalent to the protections offered by EU law.[4]

The Article 29 Data Protection Working Party delivered an opinion on April 13, 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] The European Data Protection Supervisor issued an opinion on 30 May 2016 in which he stated that "the Privacy Shield, as is stands, is not robust enough to withstand future legal scrutiny before the [European] Court".[6]

On 8 July 2016 EU Member States representatives (article 31 committee) approved the final version of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, paving the way for the adoption of the decision by the Commission.[7] The European Commission adopted the framework on 12 July 2016 and it went into effect the same day.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 European Commission - Press release: political agreement on framework
  2. ↑ "The new transatlantic data "Privacy Shield"". The Economist. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2016-03-26.
  3. 1 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
  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
  6. ↑ European Data Protection Supervisor, Privacy Shield: more robust and sustainable solution needed, 30 May 2016
  7. ↑ Statement by European Commission Vice-President Ansip and Commissioner Jourová, Adoption by Member States of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, 8 July 2016
  8. ↑ European Commission - Press release: launch privacy shield
  9. ↑ Privacy Shield adequacy decision

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