Goodbye Safe Harbour, hello Privacy Shield – but what does that really mean for your data?

After three months of negotiation and one missed deadline, the EU has finally come to a provisional deal with the US on new data transfer rules, now named Privacy Shield. We agreed with US partners on a new framework with strong protections in place: EU-US #privacyshield pic.twitter.com/LVuZ3aTM84 — Andrus Ansip (@Ansip_EU) February 2, 2016 The pair had been thrashing out the new deal since the European Court of Justice ruled back in October that the existing Safe Harbor rule wa