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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