EU and US organisations welcome the European Court of Justice Safe Harbor Ruling
Last week’s momentous ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ), which declared safe harbor invalid under EU’s data protection and fundamental rights laws, saw an outpour of support from our...
View ArticleFundamental rights are fundamental
At International Privacy Conference, Consumer, Digital Rights and Data Protection Groups Call for Strong Laws to Protect Public. TACD alongside leading privacy and consumer organizations meeting in...
View ArticleThe Safe Harbour is Dead, long live the Not-so-safe Harbour?
The ‘Privacy Shield’ PR fanfare was clearly designed to buy the Commission more time before the European authorities started enforcing the law. This it has achieved – today the European Data Protection...
View ArticleTACD Calls on EU to Reject “Privacy Shield” Proposal
Scheme Fails to Protect Consumers’ Fundamental Rights to Privacy and Data Protection Following the 29 February 2016 release of the text of the “Privacy Shield” by the European Commission and the U.S....
View ArticleTACD Statement in Response to European Court of Justice Safe Harbour Ruling
EU and US consumer organisations, represented by TACD, welcome today’s decision by the Court which finds that the special status of the United States companies permitted to transfer personal...
View ArticleData Protection Authorities confirm that EU-US Privacy Shield proposal is...
Today, the European Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) sent the so-called EU-US Privacy Shield back to the drawing board. Following a thorough assessment of the proposed new framework, the DPAs have...
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