Four years ago, the EU began enforcement of the GDPR, comprehensive data privacy law enacted to create a standardized and cohesive data privacy framework across all EU member countries. Over the last four years, there has been much litigation concerning supposed violations of the GDPR through transfers of data from the EU to the U.S. The litigation initially left businesses in the U.S. to navigate GDPR compliance on their own, with relatively little guidance from the government. The European Commission and the U.S. hope to fill the gaps left in the wake of this litigation with Privacy Shield 2.0.
