Schrems Strikes Again: EU–US Privacy Shield Suffers Same Fate as Its Predecessor
Emma Flett, Jenny Wilson and Jacqueline Clover discuss the personal data transfer requirements under the General Data Protection Litigation, the complex chronology of events leading to the Schrems II judgment before the Court of Justice of the European Union and the reasons for its decision, and provides some practical considerations for organizations which transfer, or are looking to transfer, personal data from the EU or EEA to the U.S. (and other third countries), in light of this ruling.
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This material was first published by Thomson Reuters, trading as Sweet & Maxwell, 5 Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London, E14 5AQ, in Computer and Telecommunications Journal as Schrems Strikes Again: EU–US Privacy Shield Suffers Same Fate as Its Predecessor [(2020) 26 C.T.L.R., Issue 6] and is reproduced by agreement with the publishers.