"As a series of Monty Python sketches once said, 'nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!' I have to admit that I was one of the many privacy professionals who, for years, balked at the suggestion that Safe Harbor would cease to exist," writes TeleSign CPO Stephen Bolinger, CIPM, CIPP/E, CIPP/G, CIPP/US, in this exclusive for The Privacy Advisor. "So I was genuinely surprised at (and a bit bewildered by) the advocate general's opinion and the European Court of Justice's final judgment in Schrems. Dealing with regulatory change can be difficult for any company, and even more so when you aren't expecting it." In this case, the invalidation of Safe Harbor required Bolinger to make some big decisions.
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