Tag: Safe Harbor

The European Commission has announced a new agreement to allow companies like Facebook to transfer users’ data between the E.U. and U.S. It’s not clear whether this “E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield” — formerly the “Safe Harbor” agreement — will protect privacy and withstand legal scrutiny or challenge.

Talks continue in the effort to forge a new E.U.-U.S. “Safe Harbor” data-transfer agreement. Regardless of how long it takes, robust legal reform is needed before a new agreement can be reached that could resist legal challenge.

The “Schrems” ruling in Europe invalidated the EU-US “Safe Harbour” agreement that allowed companies like Facebook to transfer data overseas. Here’s how the law needs change before a new agreement can be reached that would resist legal challenge.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled in the Schrems case, finding that the Safe Harbour mechanism is invalid. Safe Harbour is a transatlantic data transfer mechanism enabling US companies to send data collected in the EU to the US.

Tomorrow, the EU Court of Justice will determine whether the national Data Protection authority can conduct an independent assessment of a decision in the so-called Schrems case, which deals with Facebook’s transfer of user data between its subsidiary in Ireland and the parent company in the United States.

Today Yves Bot, Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), released his opinion in the EU-US Safe Harbor case, which addresses a controversial transatlantic data sharing agreement.

Today Yves Bot, Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), released his opinion in the EU-US Safe Harbor case, which addresses a controversial transatlantic data sharing agreement. Advocate General Bot recommends that the Court rule to recognise the duty of national data protection authorities to conduct independent assessment of the Safe Harbor in light of evidence of abuses brought by the Snowden’s revelations. Based on a large number of hearings, AG Bot considers European Commission’s earlier decision, holding that the protection of personal data in the United States is adequate, to be invalid.