Privacy Shield
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Privacy Shield, Standard Contractual Clauses, CLOUD Act: Privacy activist Max Schrems’ advice for worried companies
Read moreEven if US cloud providers are running their own data centers in Europe, the data stored there is not protected from access under the FISA Act, according to Schrems. Also, new SCC versions will be much more complicated to apply, says Europe’s most well-known data protection activist.
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GAIA-X: Retarus actively committed to a data-sovereign Europe
Read moreAs a founding member of the international non-profit organization GAIA-X AISBL , Retarus is representing the communication, data security, and EU data protection interests of its European customers in the global GAIA-X cloud initiative.
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The CJEU overturns “Privacy Shield”. So what now?
Read moreIn response to a complaint by the Austrian data rights activist Max Schrems, the Court of Justice of the European Union declared the EU-USA data protection agreement “Privacy Shield” invalid on 16 July 2020. This means that the second agreement on the protection of personal data of EU citizens in the USA has already failed…
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EU Citizens have a new Privacy Shield
Read moreThe EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework was adopted last month, July 2016. This new regulation was designed and accepted by the U.S. Department of Commerce and European Commission to provide companies on both sides of the Atlantic with a mechanism to comply with EU data protection. The Privacy Shield’s requirements impacts personal data being transferred from…
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Max Schrems takes the EU-US Privacy Shield to pieces
Read moreBloomberg is currently featuring the Austrian data privacy activist Max Schrems – and he takes apart the EU-US Privacy Shield, the successor to the Safe Harbor arrangement.