The U.S. Department of Commerce published a frequently asked questions page on the current state of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement following the Court of Justice of the European Union's "Schrems II" decision. The FAQ page includes answers on whether Privacy Shield participants can continue to ...

A group of 17 international trade associations asked the European Union and U.S. to begin negotiations for a replacement to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield agreement, citing the negative economic effects of disrupted trans-Atlantic data flows. In a letter to European Justice Commissioner Didier Reynders,...

The Conversation looks at the impact the Court of Justice of the European Union's "Schrems II" ruling could have on Australian data flows with the EU. As Australia does not have adequacy standing with the EU, the country has had to rely on standard contractual clauses to receive European data. The C...

AdvisorHub reports Morgan Stanley is facing a class-action lawsuit from current and former customers stemming from a reported data breach at the start of July. The financial services company announced July 9 that decommissioned servers from closed data centers were not sufficiently scrubbed of clien...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced it does not have a favorable view on the California Privacy Rights Act ballot initiative. "(Proposition) 24 does not do enough to advance the data privacy of California consumers," EFF wrote in a blog post. "It is a mixed bag of partial steps backwards an...