Data Transfers

Introduction Canada’s federal private sector privacy reform has returned, and it is not merely Bill C-27 in revised form. On June 15, 2026, the federal government introduced Bill C-36, An Act to enact the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and…

Third attempt of the European Commission to get a stable agreement on EU-US data transfers will be likely back at the Court of Justice (CJEU) in a matter of months. The allegedly “new” Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework is largely a copy of the failed “Privacy Shield”. Despite the European Commission’s…

Link to the original Press Release from the European Commission Today, the European Commission adopted its adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. The decision concludes that the United States ensures an adequate level of protection – comparable to that of the European Union – for personal data transferred from…

While a final resolution is near, there’s been more wait-and-see periods than action during negotiations for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. First it was months of waiting in between the provisional EU-U.S. agreement on data transfers and the executive order securing U.S. national security commitments. Now concerned parties are set to…