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Saturday, February 6, 2016

Safe Harbor 2.0: Confusion Reigns As US, EU Send Mixed Messages Over ‘Privacy Shield’ Data-Sharing Rules

"So with Safe Harbor invalidated, alternatives simply too onerous to implement and the details of Privacy Shield still to be finalized, it's unclear whether thousands of companies potentially still using Safe Harbor are going to face enforcement actions."

Safe Harbor 2.0: Confusion Reigns As US, EU Send Mixed Messages Over ‘Privacy Shield’ Data-Sharing Rules

“What we actually have here is a desperate PR effort to buy more time before the EU Commission and the U.S. have to face the consequences of the legal incompatibility between the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights and the U.S.’ commitment to mass surveillance,” Simon McGarr, an Irish lawyer specializing in internet protocol and law, said