In the much anticipated first annual review of the EU-US Privacy Shield program, the European Commission concluded that the program continues to provide adequate protection for personal information transferred from Europe to the United States. The Privacy Shield lets EU entities send personal information to participating US companies without running afoul of EU law – law which prohibits the exporting of personal information to entities located in countries whose laws were not deemed “adequate” (except in certain limited circumstances). The US has not been deemed to have “adequate” laws (only a few non-EU countries have been determined adequate, among them Canada, Israel, New Zealand, Switzerland and Uruguay).
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