The "Privacy Shield" transatlantic agreement is to end thanks to a ruling by the E.U.'s highest court.
What this means for webmasters is that the transatlantic "Safe harbour" as it was previously called, is no longer valid and data will need to be treated as any other country in the world. It does mean that we all need to look at where we store data, particularly transatlantic, and whether it is impacted by cross-border data laws.
This will probably impact larger businesses in the first instance, where servers are "off-shore."
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Microsoft statement:
We want to be clear: if you are a commercial customer, you can continue to use Microsoft services in compliance with European law. The Court’s ruling does not change your ability to transfer data today between the EU and U.S. using the Microsoft cloud.
For years we have provided customers with overlapping protections under both the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) and Privacy Shield frameworks for data transfers. Although today’s ruling invalidated the use of Privacy Shield moving forward, the SCCs remain valid. Our commercial customers are already protected under SCCs.
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