Responding to the European Commission guidance today (Friday, 6 November 2015) which provided advice for businesses that can no longer use the safe harbour arrangement for exporting EU citizens’ data to the US following a court decision, Application Developers Alliance EU Policy Director, Catriona Meehan, calls on the European Commission and US Congress to urgently reach a new international agreement on transatlantic data flow.
(Brussels, 6 October 2015) – In a blow to small digital businesses and in contrast to many efforts of the European Commission, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) today ruled that the 2000 EU/US Data Protection Safe Harbour Agreement is invalid. The CJEU decision in the so-called “Schrems” case (C-362/14), comes as the EU has become increasingly critical of EU citizens’ data being transferred outside the EU.
The European People’s Party, within the framework of the SME Europe initiative, organised a lively debate on the importance of the Digital Single Market (DSM) for app developers on 15th September, in the European Parliament.
The Internet of Things is becoming the focus of many discussions in the European Institutions. Policy makers are responding by developing several initiatives focussing on different aspects. Following the outcomes of the 2013 public consultation, the European Commission designed a full range of actions aiming to fully deploy IoT within the Digital Agenda.
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