Adobe was fined 8,000 euros, Punica 9,000 euros, and Unilever 11,000 euros, by the Hamburg DPA. However, Caspar said standard contractual clauses would also have to be scrutinized to decide if they give sufficient protection to Europeans’ data, leaving open the possibility that regulators will restrict their use too. Read the entire article here.
Max Schrems is busy again. As many predicted, this time he is going after Facebook’s use of model clauses. He argues that the reasoning for the invalidation of Safe Harbor applies equally to transfers to the US by way of model clauses because the data is subject to the same mass indiscriminate access by the…
In addition to telling Facebook to stop transferring to some data to the U.S., the CNIL also instructed Facebook to stop collecting non-user data and serving them personalized ads without their permission (though it's a little unclear which is the chicken and which is the egg). Facebook states that it does not transfer data to…
Vera Jourova, the European commissioner of justice, has been at the heart of the region’s recent privacy push and faces a number of challenges in the new year, including the completion of a new data transfer agreement with the United States. Source: Europe’s Justice Commissioner Prepares for a Difficult 2016 – The New York Times
American businesses could be required to report requests by U.S. intelligence services for the data of European users under a trans-Atlantic data-transfer pact now being negotiated, according to the European Union’s justice commissioner. Source: EU Wants U.S. Firms to Help Mitigate Data-Protection Concerns – WSJ
US Federal Trade Commission bureau director says EU national data protection authorities had only referred four privacy complaints over the 15 years life span of Safe Harbour. Source: EU data chiefs failed to report privacy complaints to US
The Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commission (FDPIC) released, on 22 October 2015, a press release stating that until a new agreement can be reached between the US and Switzerland, the US-Swiss Safe Harbor can no longer be considered a valid mechanism for data transfer, in light of the Court of Justice of the European…
The group of leading global privacy experts hopes to see greater cooperation between Europe’s privacy regulators and the Federal Trade Commission. Source: As U.S. Tech Companies Scramble, Group Sees Opportunity in Safe Harbor Decision – The New York Times
European Union privacy regulators set an end-January deadline to replace a trans-Atlantic data-transfer pact struck down by the bloc’s highest court last week—and provided some certainty in the short-term for companies using other arrangements to transfer data. Source: EU Regulators Set Grace Period for New Trans-Atlantic Data Pact – WSJ
Ireland’s role as the de facto chief privacy regulator of the European Union is coming under scrutiny after the European Court of Justice struck down the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor data-transfer agreement, the Financial Times reported. “American and European officials working on a new agreement for the international transfer of digital data like social media posts…
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