Commentaries by Sunny Seon Kang

Post-Schrems II, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Cross-Border Data Transfers

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Post-Schrems II, Privacy-Enhancing Technologies for Cross-Border Data Transfers

Sunny Seon Kang

January 25, 2021 09:00:30 am

When the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) invalidated the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield in Schrems II, over 5300 American businesses—including Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft—lost their primary mechanism for international data transfers with the European Economic Area (EEA). Since the July 2020 decision, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission have [...]

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