German data protection authorities have suspended BCR approvals, question Model Clause transfers

27 October 2015 – Germany’s data protection authorities have stopped authorizing new applications for binding corporate rules and various other legal mechanisms for transferring people’s data to the U.S. These mechanisms are almost the only alternatives to the now-struck-down safe harbor agreement between the EU and the U.S., so companies trying to send Germans’ data across the Atlantic now have a problem if they haven’t already set something up. They can use consent as the legal basis for those transfers, but with heavy restrictions.

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