Privacy Laws

Understanding Privacy Shield

Different parts of the world have different views of how we need to treat personally-identifiable information. Europe takes a much stronger view of personal privacy than the US, with a focus on giving users control of their personal information: no matter who holds the data, the user has the right to determine how it’s used – and must be informed of what’s being collected and why. For Europeans, personal privacy is a fundamental right, the result of a century of...