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The October 6, 2015, decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the Schrems v. Facebook case left significant uncertainty surrounding the legality and practicality of U.S. technology companies’ ability to process and use personal data received from the EU, in the absence of the Safe Harbor framework. Since that date, parties on both sides of the Atlantic have been waiting for clear guidance from U.S. and EU regulators on how to deal with data transfer between the EU and U.S. Pressure only mounted as the January 31st, 2016, deadline set by Europe’s national data protection authorities came and passed. But today, U.S. and EU regulators announced that they have come up with a new framework for transatlantic data flows, dubbed the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.
Read the complete article at Litigation Alert: From a Safe Harbor to a Privacy Shield