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What The EU Safe Harbor Decision Means

October 8, 2015

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The recent Safe Harbor decision from the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) gets a summary and analysis from McGuire Woods attorney Paul Van den Bulck. The CJEU found, among other things, that the U.S. fails to adequately protect personal data or provide legal avenues for people to access their data and correct or delete it, and concludes that the EU Commission decision on Safe Harbor is invalid. “The ruling of the CJEU will have an important impact on companies that have relied on Safe Harbor only,” the author writes. “For these companies, it seems urgent to think about standard contractual clauses, binding corporate rules or, when possible, another legal basis to render data transfer from the EU to the U.S. compliant.”

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