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Court of Justice Strikes Down the EU-US Privacy Shield But Rules that the Standard Contractual Clauses Can Be a Valid Mechanism for Transfers of Personal Data Outside of the European Union

By Mark A. Prinsley, Oliver Yaros & Ondrej Hajda on July 16, 2020

Posted in Data Transfers, EU / EEA, GDPR

Today (16 July 2020) the Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) delivered its long awaited decision on the validity of the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) and the EU-US Privacy Shield (“Privacy Shield”).