The Schrems II Ruling: Where are we now?
Explaining the Schrems II Ruling and Its Implications Premise: In 2015, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that the 2000 Safe Harbor framework, a privacy mechanism for sharing personal data for organizations between the United States and the European Union, was invalid [1]. Based on an initial 2013 complaint made by Maximilian Schrems, an Austrian privacy advocate, the ruling, known as “Schrems I,” filed soon after the Edward Snowden revelations [2]. In his complaint, Schrems argued [3] that U.S. companies did not sufficiently protect personal data for it to be secure...
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