Last month the European Commission released its report on the third annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, and though the news was good for U.S. businesses, the future of data transfers between the two regions remains uncertain. The Court of Justice of the European Union is set to hand down in the coming months its decision to the so-called "Schrems II" case involving the legality of standard contractual clauses. "Though the headline announcing the European Commission’s report on the third annual review of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was banal, several paragraphs within the report were anything but," writes IAPP Research Director Caitlin Fennessy, CIPP/US. In this piece for the IAPP Westin Research Center, Fennessy, who formerly served as Privacy Shield director for the U.S. International Trade Administration, analyzes this year's review and its potential to impact the Schrems II case.
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