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‘Privacy Shield 2.0 – Third Time’s the Charm?’

Steve Hedley on 20 May 2022 — Leave a Comment

“In March, European Union President Ursula von der Leyen and US President Joe Biden announced that they had agreed to a Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework. This follows nearly two years of negotiations, across two US administrations, because the 2015 agreement struck by the US and EU – Privacy Shield – was found to be deficient by the Court of Justice for the European Union (CJEU) in 2020 …” (more)

[Raffaela Wakeman, Lawfare, 19 May]

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