1/28/2020

What is Privacy Shield?

Privacy Shield is the current agreement for legal transfer of data from the European Union (E.U.) to the United States (U.S.). It is designed to offer stronger personal data protections and insurances of personal data for data subjects in the E.U. When organizations certify under the Privacy Shield Principles, they are benefitting from the European Commission’s adequacy decision for data transfer from the E.U. to the U.S.

What Happened to Safe Harbor?

After concerns about the U.S.’s inability to keep data safe, the Court of Justice of the E.U. found Safe Harbor to be inadequate in protecting the E.U.’s data privacy. The U.S. and the E.U. revised the Safe Harbor agreement, which evolved into the Privacy Shield Policy. If sponsors had previously certified under Safe Harbor, they will need to certify under Privacy Shield to continue to transfer data from the E.U. to the U.S.

Learn about the Principles of Privacy Shield and how they apply to clinical trials, how to register for Privacy Shield, plus concerns about potential updates related to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in our From Safe Harbor to Privacy Shield eLearning course.

The eLearning course offers:

Interactive content
Knowledge Checks
Scenarios to apply your knowledge
Post Assessment
Certificate of Completion

To sample an interactive demo or to purchase the full course, visit our store here. Contact us for information about training your team.

- The Clinical Pathways Team

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