Tag Archives: SCCs

Updated EU Standard Contractual Clauses Are Finally Here

By Nichole Sterling, Andreas Kaltsounis and Melinda L. McLellan on June 8, 2021 Posted in EU, GDPR

On June 4, 2021, the European Union’s (EU) executive branch, the European Commission (EC), released their new Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) for compliant cross-border data transfers under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), ending a long wait for revised SCCs. The new SCCs resolve certain practical issues companies faced when using the older versions but … 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