The standard contractual clauses introduced by the European Commission in 2010 governing the transfer of personal data to non-Member States are valid. This was the Opinion of Advocate General Henrik Saugmandsgaard Øe of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday 19 December in his much-awaited Opinion in the ‘Schrems II’ case (C-311/18).
The case dates back to 2013, when famous Austrian activist Max Schrems filed a complaint against Facebook with Irish regulators to...