The European Commission recently issued an overall positive review in its first annual report on the E.U. – U.S. Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”),  after evaluating the Privacy Shield in its joint review with the US last month.

The Privacy Shield took effect in August 2016 replacing the EU – US Safeharbor that was invalidated by

The folks over at Politico are reporting that the Senate Judiciary Committee struck a deal Wednesday night regarding the Judicial Redress Act. The committee adopted Senator John Cornyn’s amendment that ties the bill’s privacy protections to the proposed new Safe Harbor Agreement being negotiated between the U.S. and the EU. The Judicial Redress Bill attempts

As most readers are aware, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) rule in Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner (Case C-362/14) on October 6, 2015, the voluntary Safe Harbor Program did not provide adequate protection to the personal data of EU citizens. Post Schrems U.S. companies have been unclear what to do to