The Safe Harbor Framework governing transfer of personal information from the European Union to the United States is no more. On October 6, 2015, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) struck down the vaunted bilateral data protection and transfer agreement, impacting...
UPDATE: Since this article was drafted, the US-EU Safe Harbor program has been shut down. There is now a new regime in place named Privacy Shield. Please see this article for more information. Any company looking to transfer data about users from the European Union...
UPDATE: Since this article was drafted, Privacy Shield has been formally adopted and is now in effect. Please see this article for more information. After four months of frantic negotiations, the U.S. and the European Union have a new deal on cross-border data...