In its long awaited judgment in the Schrems II case, the ECJ has this morning invalidated the EU-US Privacy Shield citing the “limitations on the protection of personal data arising from the domestic law of the United States on the access and use by US public authorities” in respect of personal data transferred from the European Union to the United States on the basis that such limitations do not provide the protections ensured under EU law. The ECJ’s concerns centered around certain US surveillance programs which are not limited to what is strictly necessary and EU data subjects not having effective rights of enforcement against US authorities under US laws.
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