In a complaint, the Federal Trade Commission alleges that between January 2017 and October 2018, RagingWire Data Centers, Inc. claimed in its online privacy policy that the company participated in
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The European Commission expects the U.S. Department of Commerce (DoC) to request from companies evidence of the privacy provisions of the relevant contracts with third parties to assess compliance with
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Privacy Shield lives to shield another year (Part 1).
The European Commission has published its third annual report on Privacy Shield.
Per Věra Jourová, Commissioner for Justice, Consumers and Gender
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“Since the [EU US Privacy Shield] Framework’s implementation on August 1, 2016, more than 5,000 companies have made public and legally enforceable pledges to protect data transferred from the EU
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The Federal Trade Commission has approved a final consent order settling charges that a background screening company falsely claimed to be in compliance with the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield
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The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield is in the line of fire, again.
“A legal challenge to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, a mechanism used by thousands of companies to authorize data transfers
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“The Federal Trade Commission is aiming to bring more EU-U.S. Privacy Shield enforcement actions for significant violations of the cross-border data transfer program, the agency’s consumer protection chief said April
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Enforcement is increasing under the EU US Privacy Shield Framework for cross border transfer of personal data. A report published by European regulator, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), lists
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IF Brexit AND Privacy Shield THEN (amend privacy notice).
If you use the EU U.S. Privacy Shield mechanism to transfer Personal Data from the UK to the U.S., you will
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The European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on May 25, 2018. This gives companies only two months to prepare for and comply with the GDPR. Companies should
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