New EU Regulations' Implications For U.S. Businesses

The world of data privacy and cybersecurity in the Europe Union has become awash with new regulation and other fundamental changes over the last few months. October saw the bombshell of a European court invalidating a long-relied-upon safe harbor program. December brought a new data privacy regulation which is set to replace decades-old EU privacy principles in 2018. This was followed by the announcement of a new network and information security directive which will soon introduce specific laws regarding network and information security across the EU. All this against a back-drop of regulation which has been either nonexistent or stagnant or for quite some time.

Safe Harbors and Privacy Shields