Tag Archives: EU-U.S. Privacy Shield

FTC Announces Enforcement Action, Warning Letters for Companies Falsely Claiming Privacy Shield Participation

Photo of BakerHostetlerBy Laura E. Jehl and BakerHostetler on Posted in EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently announced a compliance sweep of companies claiming to be in compliance with the U.S.-EU Privacy Shield and U.S.-Swiss Privacy Shield Frameworks. The U.S.-EU Privacy Shield and the U.S.-Swiss Privacy Shield programs enable companies to self-certify that they have adopted a number of data protection practices to bring their businesses … Continue Reading

EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework Joint Annual Review 2.0

By David M. Brown on Posted in Enforcement, International Privacy Law
As we previously reported here, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced several enforcement actions in late 2017, on the eve of the first annual joint EU-U.S. review of the Privacy Shield Framework. Now the second annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework is underway, and the FTC has announced several new enforcement actions, which … Continue Reading

Looking Back: The Federal Trade Commission Issues Annual Data Privacy Report for 2017

By John Busch on Posted in Cybersecurity, Enforcement, News
On Jan. 18, 2018, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published its Annual Privacy and Data Security Update. The update is helpful to businesses in that it recaps the efforts and areas of involvement the FTC has targeted in the past year as well as guides data protection strategies for 2018. The report provides a detailed … Continue Reading

Safe Harbor Part Deux: The Privacy Shield

By Tanya Forsheit on Posted in International Privacy Law
This week began like many. An arbitrary deadline came and went – this one, January 31, 2016, was set by the Article 29 Working Party for European and United States regulators to address the void created by the invalidation of the Safe Harbor Framework for EU-U.S. data transfers in the Schrems decision back in October. … Continue Reading
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