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The CJEU invalidates the EU-US “privacy shield”

Ainara Bordes

 / 16 July 2020 / News

The Court of Justice invalidates Decision 2016/1250 on the adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-US Data Protection Shield. Nevertheless, the Court considers that Commission Decision on standard contractual clauses (SCCs) for the transfer of personal data to processors established in third countries is valid. See CJEU’s press release  https://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2020-07/cp200091en.pdf For the Judgement http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=228677&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=lst&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=9712167

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EDPS Opinion on the negotiating mandate of an EU-US agreement on cross-border access to electronic evidence

Halefom Abraha

 / 3 April 2019 / News

The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) released an Opinion on the potential EU-US agreement on facilitating cross-border data access in criminal matters. In his Opinion, the EDPS welcomed the Commission’s Recommendation authorizing the opening of negotiations between the EU and the US on cross-border access to electronic evidence as envisaged by the CLOUD Act. To

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