Strasbourg, 02/02/2016 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 2 February, the European Commission announced that an agreement had been reached with the US on a new framework (“the EU-US Privacy Shield”) This will organise a “commercial” transfer of Europeans' personal data to the US, whose first Safe Harbor version goes back to 2000. This was invalidated in October 2015 by the European Court of Justice (Schrems ruling) (see EUROPE 11404).
This new mechanism was concluded during the day at the...