European Union privacy regulators have threatened to bring a legal challenge to a year-old EU-U.S. pact on the cross-border transfer of personal data if their concerns about its functioning and U.S. surveillance practices are not resolved by the autumn of 2018, they said in a report. The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield pact was agreed last year […]

The US Safe Harbour framework has, for the last 15 years, provided a mechanism by which European businesses can validly transfer personal data (including employee data) from the EU to the US.   In a ground-breaking decision this week,  the European Court of Justice has declared the Safe Harbour scheme invalid.   This decision will have a […]