The U.S. Department of Commerce and the European Commission announced on Tuesday that they have entered into a new transatlantic safe harbor transfer agreement, which comes two days after the deadline set by EU data protection authorities.

The pact, according to the EU Commission, known as the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, includes stronger obligations for U.S.

A lot has happened since the European Court of Justice’s declaration that the EU-US safe harbor framework is invalid (see related post).

First, the Article 29 Working Party, an organization comprised of representatives from each data protection authority in the EU, issued a statement late last week indicating that since transfers relying on safe

Last week, (September 23, 2015), Advocate General Yves Bot (AG), an adviser to Europe’s highest court, issued a nonbinding opinion that the agreement between the EU and the U.S. for data transfers from the EU to the U.S. should be deemed invalid by the European Court of Justice.

The opinion declared that the European Commission’s