Transatlantic data flows
At a Glance
23-05-2016
Privacy Shield is a new framework for transatlantic exchanges of personal data, agreed between the European Commission and the US government. Although it has significant improvements compared to its predecessor, Safe Harbour, concerns remain to be addressed before its finalisation.
At a Glance
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- access to the courts
- America
- communications
- Court of Justice (EU)
- cross-frontier data flow
- data collection
- data protection
- data-processing law
- defence
- economic geography
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- espionage
- EU institutions and European civil service
- European Commission
- EUROPEAN UNION
- GEOGRAPHY
- information and information processing
- information technology and data processing
- INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
- justice
- LAW
- political framework
- political geography
- POLITICS
- protection of privacy
- rights and freedoms
- supervisory power
- United States