CompTIA Thanks Department of Commerce, EU for New Safe Harbor Agreement

CompTIA, the Computing Technology Industry Association, issued the following statement on a new project of the Safe Harbor Agreement (to be called "the EU are American. Privacy Shield") announced today by the European Commissioner jourová see.

The insurance agreement before port, which provides guidelines for US companies to transfer data securely from the EU to the United States, was annulled by the European Court of Justice in October. Without a new agreement, thousands of US companies were left without a way to transfer data across the Atlantic, without the risk of sanctions by the European data protection authorities.

The following statement should be attributed to Elizabeth Hyman, executive vice president, CompTIA:

"We thank the European Commission and the United States Department of Commerce for their hard work in developing this new draft agreement on EU-US privacy shield.

This is a great step forward for more than 4,000 companies in the United States they have transferred data across the Atlantic under the safe harbor. However, there is much work to be done before this new agreement can be implemented, and we hope that the process continues to move forward at this critical moment for the future of trade between the EU and the United States. "