What does Privacy Shield mean?<\/strong><\/p>\n The EU-US Privacy Shield was the successor to the so-called Safe Harbor regulation and was a special adequacy decision that certified that the USA has an adequate level of data protection with regard to the transfer of personal data from the EU or the EEA. US companies were able to register for this in a list of the US Department of Commerce. As part of this voluntary \"self-certification\", these companies promised to adhere to certain data protection standards. The Privacy Shield was overturned with the so-called \"Schrems II\" ruling of the ECJ on July 16, 2022 (case no. C-311\/18). Since then, a new political instrument to safeguard data transfer to the USA has been in the pipeline. With the TADPF, a successor agreement between the EU and the USA has already been announced.<\/p>\n Before the ECJ ruling 'Schrems II', many companies used the Privacy Shield to transfer data to the USA; since its repeal, they have been using standard contractual clauses.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The EU-US Privacy Shield was the successor to the so-called Safe Harbor regulation and was a special adequacy decision that certified that the USA has an adequate level of data protection with regard to the transfer of personal data from the EU or the EEA. US companies were able to register for this in a list of the US Department of Commerce. As part of this voluntary \"self-certification\", these companies promised to adhere to certain data protection standards. The Privacy Shield was overturned with the so-called \"Schrems II\" ruling of the ECJ on July 16, 2022 (case no. C-311\/18). Since then, a new political instrument to safeguard data transfer to the USA has been in the pipeline. With the TADPF, a successor agreement between the EU and the USA has already been announced.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41282","glossary","type-glossary","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nPractical example<\/h2>\n