EU-US Privacy Shield: What you need to know

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This article was produced by Olswang LLP, which joined with CMS on 1 May 2017.

The EU-US Privacy Shield is a replacement arrangement for the previous Safe Harbour Agreement which was held to be invalid in 2015. In February 2016, the European Commission and the United States Government reached a political agreement on this new framework which provides a mechanism to enable the transfer of personal data from entities in the European Union to the US. It is intended to provide a robust new system to protect the personal data of Europeans through safeguards and commitments deemed to be adequate from a European data protection regulatory perspective.



Read our FAQs for all you need to know on the EU-US Privacy Shield, here.