Europe’s top court has rejected the validity of the EU-US Privacy Shield, set up in 2016 to protect Europeans personal data when it is transferred across the Atlantic for commercial use.
Read the CJEU Press Release - The Court of Justice invalidates Decision 2016/1250 on the adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-US Data Protection Shield.
Additional commentary and responses can be read in:
16th July:
- European Commission opening remarks at the press conference following the judgment.
- IAPP reports on the 'Schrems II' decision: EU-US data transfers in question.
- Reuters reports privacy campaigner Max Schrems welcomes the decision.
- The Guardian, which claims tech firms like Facebook may be required to restrict data sent from EU to US.
- 11KBW Panopticon Blog declares Privacy Shield dead and provides a precise summary of the conclusion to this much-anticipated case.
- The Guardian publishes a full timeline of the key events in the nine-year campaign.
- EDRi - European Digital Rights organisation EDRi hails the decision a victory for us all.
- Privacy & Information Security Law Blog comments on how the outcome was unexpected.
- IAPP Schrems II backs the European legal regime into a corner. How can it get out?
- IAPP confirm while CJEU invalidates EU-US Privacy Shield; SCCs remain valid.
- IAPP has published a new Privacy Shield INVALID Infographic.
- Reuters reports that Facebook is to study the court ruling on data transfers.
- Open Rights Group asks what about the UK?
- ICO has also issued a statement on Schremms II case.
17th July:
- WIRED predicts how the end of Privacy Shield spells trouble for Brexit Britain.
