Receiving Data from Europe: The EU-US Privacy Shield
The European Union (“EU”) recently announced that the new EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement (“Privacy Shield”) is adequate to meet EU data privacy requirements and allow for the transfer of personal data from the EU to the US in support of transatlantic commerce. Here is a basic primer on the Privacy Shield and EU-US data transfers. As noted below, the new framework offers organization’s certain incentives for self-certifying under the Privacy Shield before September 30, 2016.
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