With over 2,000 companies so far taking advantage of the EU-US Privacy Shield Arrangement to transfer information from the European Union to the US, a need certainly exists in the marketplace for compliance solutions to cross-border data flows. For companies transitioning over to Privacy Shield, or even those self-certifying to Privacy Shield for the first time, our team of privacy experts is here to assist in navigating this complex new framework. Below is a high-level checklist privacy practitioners and in-house counsel can use to illustrate the key steps every organization must complete before self certifying under the new arrangement.

Contributors: Michael Egan, Amy de La Lama and Harry Valetk

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Brian provides advice on global data privacy, data protection, cybersecurity, digital media, direct marketing information management, and other legal and regulatory issues. He is Chair of Baker McKenzie's Global Data Privacy and Security group.