What Privacy Shield organizations should do in the wake of ‘Schrems II’

The Court of Justice of the European Union issued its decision in “Schrems II” Thursday, a landmark decision that invalidates the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield arrangement.

Fortunately, the CJEU did not invalidate the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses for transfers to data processors. However, the rationale behind the court’s ruling on Privacy Shield (which focused on concerns about U.S. law and practice on government surveillance) would suggest that companies will need to evaluate their use of SCCs.

So, what now?

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