Summertime and the livin' is easy
Well, is it? This year we are collectively going through an
exceptional summer: some countries are still struggling with very
high COVID-19 infection rates. Life is not back to normal. Home
office is still a fact for many of us. Group leisure activities are
on hold or at least socially frowned upon. The well-deserved summer
trip is cancelled. And in the middle of all that, the ECJ even put
a "travel ban" on EU data. Again!
With its landmark decision on the legitimacy of international
transfers of personal data (Rs C 311/18), the ECJ had to decide on
those two GDPR safeguard mechanisms which were in practice most
common: the EU-US-Privacy Shield and the European Commissions'
Standard Contractual Clauses. The ECJ declared international data
transfers based on the EU-US Privacy Shield invalid –
effective immediately. Even though the Standard Contractual Clauses
survived, the ECJ significantly increased the obligations on
companies for
