With the European Court of Justice invalidating the EU-US Privacy Shield, security and risk professionals must take several steps to help keep data transfers flowing. And Austrian law student Maximilian Schrems took Facebook to court claiming that once his data reached US soil, privacy protection faded. S&R pros must start mapping out their data transfers to understand which transfers are impacted. For example, European data protection authorities can stop transfers under SCCs if they don’t believe they offer adequate protections. If you transfer data to one of them, no further red tape is required.

Source: Forbes July 18, 2020 00:00 UTC