A closer look at the Irish High Court's ruling on EU-US data flows

24/05/2021 | IAPP

The Irish High Court's judgment concerning Facebook's EU-US data transfers sheds light on the Irish Data Protection Commission's and the court's initial views on issues with significant global implications. In this article, the IAPP considers the timeline of the case, the High Court's decision and why there are still plenty of questions needing answers following the ruling. An opinion piece in EURACTIV outlines the major challenge for the EU and how this will inevitably be pressure from Washington to reach an accommodation within its legal framework. 

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