The seismic shift of Schrems ll and what you can still do to transfer personal data to the US from the EU

If you transfer data from the EU to the US, or if your trusted service providers do, the Schrems II European Court decision has seismic significance— even if you do not rely on Privacy Shield, recent FAQs issued by the European Data Protection Board further highlight the changes:

  • The FAQs provide further clarification on whether there is a “grace period” for those companies that had relied on the Privacy Shield.
  • Standard Contractual Clauses now require significant additional due diligence.
  • Binding Corporate Rules now face some of the same issues as SCCs

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