Why are U.S. regulators keeping the Privacy Shield on life support? Is it because fashioning a real fix is too difficult?
For European regulators, the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield died July 16, killed by a European court decision. The legal protections that provided 5,300 American companies with safe access to EU citizens’ data—without fear of legal reprisals under EU privacy law—died with it. The body in charge of enforcing EU data regulations, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB), later clarified the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruling that it provided “no grace period.”
