Supreme Court decision threatens EU-US data transfer agreement
Privacy advocate Max Schrems plans to challenge the EU-US Data Privacy Framework after a Supreme Court ruling weakened judicial oversight, raising the spectre of a third transatlantic data-transfer collapse.
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In a Tuesday letter, Max Schrems, the founder of the Vienna-based privacy advocacy organization noyb, told European officials he plans to sue to invalidate the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) that allows for the transfer of personal data from the EU to U.S. companies.
Editorial Analysis
A third invalidation of the transatlantic data-transfer mechanism would force European enterprises to rapidly re-architect cloud and SaaS data flows or face GDPR enforcement.
Inventory all personal-data flows to US processors and prepare contingency Standard Contractual Clauses or data-localisation options.
The legal basis for transferring EU personal data to US cloud providers is again under existential threat, requiring board-level contingency planning.
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