13
July
2016
Formal Adoption of EU-US Privacy Shield
After many months of negotiation and review the EU-US Privacy Shield was formally adopted by the European Commission on July 12, 2016. This came just a few days after the Article 31 Committee approved the updated text of the EU-US Privacy Shield on July 8, 2016.
12
July
2016
European Parliament formally adopts Cybersecurity Directive
On 6 July, 2016, the Network and Information Security directive (the “NIS Directive”) was adopted by the European Parliament at second reading. This follows on from formal adoption by the European Council on 17 May, 2016.
07
June
2016
German Privacy Regulator issues first fines for inadmissible transfers of data to the U.S.
On 6 June 2016, the Hamburg Data Protection Commissioner issued fines against three international companies for failing to implement alternative data transfer mechanisms following the invalidation of Safe Harbor in October 2015.