On Oct. 27 at 12:30 p.m. EST, Greenberg Traurig Of Counsel Darren Abernethy will be a panelist on a complimentary webinar hosted by the American Chamber of Commerce in Luxembourg (AMCHAM) and Luxembourg American Chamber of Commerce in New York (LACC): “After Schrems II, can I still transfer personal data outside of the European
The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU)’s historic decision in Schrems II, in which the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was invalidated, requires businesses to rethink the mechanism they can rely on to transfer personal data from the EU to the United States and other countries. After several EU data protection authorities (DPAs) published their reactions, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), an association comprising, inter alia, national DPAs of all EU Member States, presented its guidance in form of an FAQ.
At the time of its publication, the guidance comprises 12 FAQs. It will be updated with further analysis. While the EDPB notes that supplementary measures may be necessary when using standard contractual clauses (SCCs), it fails to specify what that means but promises to provide more guidance in the future. Summarized below are the key takeaways from the EDPB’s guidance.
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