Goodbye Safe Harbour, hello Privacy Shield – but what does that really mean for your data?
Feb02
on February 2, 2016
at 4:35 pm
After three months of negotiation and one missed deadline, the EU has finally come to a provisional deal with the US on new data transfer rules, now named Privacy Shield. We agreed with US partners on a new framework with strong protections in place: EU-US #privacyshield pic.twitter.com/LVuZ3aTM84 — Andrus Ansip (@Ansip_EU) February 2, 2016 The pair had been thrashing out the new deal since the European Court of Justice ruled back in October that the existing Safe Harbor rule was invalid. Safe Harbor used to allow tech companies like Facebook, Google and Microsoft to move user data between data centers if they could…
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