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Hamburg DPA’s Safe Harbor Fines Spell Further Uncertainty and Risk for Global Companies

Data Protection Report - Norton Rose FulbrightOn June 6, 2016, Johannes Caspar – the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection – announced that the Hamburg Data Protection Authority (“DPA”) fined three companies for relying on the invalidated Safe Harbor framework to transfer data from the European Union to the companies’ operations in the United States. The DPA imposed the fines on Adobe, Punica … Continue reading

Hamburg DPA leader addresses EU-US Privacy Shield

Data Protection Report - Norton Rose FulbrightOn February 5, 2016, Article 29 Working Party member and head of the Hamburg Data Protection Authority, Prof. Dr. Johannes Caspar, spoke about the EU-US Privacy Shield. Caspar observed that, once approved, the EU-US Privacy Shield system will initially be valid regardless of the decision of the European data protection authorities (DPAs). This is because the Privacy Shield will remain in force … Continue reading
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