NGE On Demand: Personal Data Protection Travels: The New Standard Contractual Clause with John Koenigsknecht and David Wheeler
On September 3, 2025, the EU General Court (the General Court) (the second-highest court in the European Union (EU)) upheld the validity of EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) in Philippe Latombe v European Commission...more
Pathways for U.S. companies to transfer personal data out of the European Union have been repeatedly blocked by EU authorities concerned by what they perceive as gaps in data protection under U.S. laws. Schrems I invalidated...more
EDPB and data protection authorities’ views and statements on the “Schrems II”- decision by the CJEU - On 16 July, 2020, the European Court of Justice (“CJEU“) passed a decision invalidating the EU-US Privacy Shield and...more
If you transfer data from the EU to the US, or if your trusted service providers do, the Schrems II European Court decision1 has seismic significance - even if you do not rely on Privacy Shield. On July 16, 2020, the Court...more
As discussed in an earlier alert, the Court of Justice of the European Union in a landmark decision in the Schrems II case invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield framework, which was widely used by thousands of US organizations...more
Does your company rely on Safe Harbor to transfer personal data from Europe to the US? If so, it’s time to think about alternatives to Safe Harbor – and fast....more