by Casey Kuktelionis | Aug 3, 2023
The State of EU-US Data Transfer Mechanisms in 2023 Since 2000 regulators have tried to keep an EU-US data transfer mechanism in place. From 2000-2015 it was Safe Harbor. From 2016 until 2020 it was Privacy Shield. And now through the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, the...
by Casey Kuktelionis | Jul 19, 2023
From Safe Harbor to Privacy Shield to what is now known as the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, personal data transfers between the European Union and the United States have been on a decades-long rollercoaster. Transferring personal data from the EU to the US has been...
by Casey Kuktelionis | Dec 20, 2022
Privacy and Data Security in Today’s Mergers and Acquisitions Privacy and data security factors are central in today’s mergers and acquisitions (M&A) landscape. M&A exposes companies to elevated risk in numerous ways, but acquired databases have potential to...
by Annie Greenley-Giudici | Dec 14, 2022
Businesses managing international data transfers containing personal data of individuals in the European Union (EU) and/or European Economic Area (EEA) to countries outside the EU must address the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation and Schrems II compliance...
by TrustArc Privacy Intelligence | Dec 7, 2022
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) didn’t give Maximillian Schrems exactly what he wanted in his second big international data privacy case (now known as Schrems II). He argued the use of standard contractual clauses (SCCs) and the EU–U.S. Privacy...
by TrustArc Privacy Intelligence | Nov 30, 2022
Privacy advocates have long argued that organizations with global customers must do more than just comply with the data protection laws in their home countries. At the heart of their argument is the fact internet technologies (and cloud services in particular) support...
