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No More Safe Harbour


In 2000, the Safe Harbour agreement was made between the EC and the US which allowed American companies based in Europe to self-certify that they would protect EU citizens’ data when transferred back to and stored in US data centres.


According to A&L Goodbody, 4,400 US companies were certified under the Safe Harbour programme, including some of the world’s largest corporations and information service providers – Google, Microsoft, Apple and Facebook.


In October 2015, the European Court of Justice ruled that the agreement was no longer valid because it did not adequately protect consumers in the wake of the Snowden revelations.


This is not to say the EU to US data transfers will have to cease: many European companies legally transfer data to the US without relying on the Safe Harbour agreement. The decision means that US companies will have to for alternative legal grounds such as model contracts, Binding Corporate Rules and Data Subject Consent.


At the time of the announcement, Helen Dixon said that she welcomed the judgement and that “in declaring the old ‘safe harbour’ rules invalid ... the significance of the judgment extends far beyond the case presently pending in Ireland. In that regard, my Office will immediately engage with our colleagues in other national supervisory authorities across Europe to determine how the judgment can be implemented in practice, quickly and effectively, particularly insofar as it impacts on EU/US data transfers.”


                   


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                  


       


                      


measures to address the risk of external data breach


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 


of companies have taken companies have actively


begun to prepare for the new EU General Data Protection Regulation


SOURCE: Attitudes to Data Protection in Ireland 2016, carried out by the Irish Computer Society


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                


             


                  


  


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         


                


                   


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