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The Privacy Shield Scheme: Should Your Company Join?

The purpose of this article is to shed some light on the EU-US Privacy Shield for business. This is vital in order to enable businesses to make an informed decision on whether or not to join this scheme.

23 minute read November 02, 2017 at 12:03 AM
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Jonathan Armstrong and André Bywater
The Privacy Shield Scheme: Should Your Company Join?

The Privacy Shield scheme was proposed in February 2016 to replace the Safe Harbor scheme, which was struck down by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the first Schrems case (Schrems 1) in October 2015.

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