As all of our readers know by now, as of October 6, the US-EU Safe Harbor Framework is no more. Safe Harbor was the mechanism on which thousands of US companies (and thousands of companies based in the European Union) legitimized their data transfers from the EU to the US. All the background, including links to a recording of our “emergency” Privacy webinar on the issue, can be found here, here, and here.
Two more dominos outside the European Union have toppled.