Tag Archives: DPAs

Privacy Shield Developments and UK Data Transfers Post-Brexit

By Melinda L. McLellan and Jenna N. Felz on June 28, 2016 Posted in International Privacy Law

With the UK’s Brexit referendum dominating the news out of Europe over the past week, it may have been easy to miss a key development in the continuing Privacy Shield negotiations. On Friday, June 24, news outlets reported that U.S. regulators and the European Commission had agreed on a finalized version from the Privacy Shield, a proposed … Continue Reading

German Data Protection Authority Issues Fines for Unlawful Cross-Atlantic Data Transfers

By Jenna N. Felz, Melinda L. McLellan and Alexandra Beierlein on June 9, 2016 Posted in Enforcement, International Privacy Law

The Data Protection Authority of Hamburg, Germany has made good on its promise to audit cross-Atlantic data transfers in the wake of the October 2015 Safe Harbor decision. On June 6, the Hamburg DPA announced that it had fined three companies for unlawful transfers of personal data from the EU to the United States. According … Continue Reading

Safe Harbor Is Dead, Long Live Standard Contractual Clauses?

By Melinda L. McLellan and William W. Hellmuth on October 22, 2015 Posted in Enforcement, International Privacy Law

For the past 15 years, the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor Framework has been one of the most popular data transfer mechanisms for organizations that engage in cross-border transfers of EU personal data to the United States. In the aftermath of the recent invalidation of the Safe Harbor Framework by the Court of Justice of the European … Continue Reading

What Now? What Next? FAQs and Answers Regarding the Safe Harbor Decision

By Tanya Forsheit and Melinda L. McLellan on October 12, 2015 Posted in Enforcement, International Privacy Law

As we discussed in our blog post last week, on October 6, 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union issued a judgment that invalidated the EU-U.S. Safe Harbor Framework. For the past 15 years, thousands of companies have been using the Safe Harbor Framework to transfer personal data from the EU to the … Continue Reading