Security News > 2022 > March > EU, US close to replacing defunct Privacy Shield II

What is Schrems II? Schrems, a former law student, brought the latest edition of the long-running case in 2015, complaining that Ireland's data protection agency still wasn't preventing Facebook Ireland Ltd from beaming his data to the US under Privacy Shield.

In July 2020, the EU Court of Justice struck down the so-called Privacy Shield data protection arrangements between the political bloc and the US, triggering a fresh wave of legal confusion over the transfer of EU subjects' data to America.

In January, a ruling by the Austrian data protection authority found that SCCs are not sufficient to comply with EU law and that so-called technical and organisational measures, such as data centre security and baseline encryption, are also insufficient.

The data had been transferred to Google, putting it under the purview of the European General Data Protection Regulation.

Accordingb to Sean Heather, senior vice president of regulatory affairs for the US Chamber of Commerce, a data transfer pact will be agreed soon and that tyhe conflict in Ukraine would accelerate it.

Reports: ICO says Belgian counterparts ruling on consent preferences means nothing in UK. The UK's Information Commissioner's Office has reportedly said that a decision handed down by the Belgian data protection authority governing the use of preference data in online advertising has no bearing in the UK. According to a decision handed down by the Belgian data protection authority all data collected "So far" through the Transparency & Consent Framework by means of a TC String - part of its consent popup system - must now be deleted by international digital marketing and advertising association IAB Europe.

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