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The undersigned associations represent thousands of U.S. companies of all sizes and from a broad range of industry sectors. Despite the many differences in the products and services we create and in the customers we serve, we are united by the need to transfer data across international borders. We are writing in relation to yesterday’s Court of Justice of the European Union (“CJEU”) decision striking down the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, a vital legal mechanism used to transfer data between the U.S. and the EU, upon which small and medium sized businesses rely heavily. Leia mais

policy filing

JUL 17, 2020

BSA | The Software Alliance today led a multi-industry letter with the US Chamber of Commerce responding to yesterday’s Schrems II ruling by the European Court of Justice and urging the US Department of Commerce to work collaboratively with the European Union to develop a stable and sustainable mechanism for companies to transfer data between the European Union and the United States. Leia mais

press release

JUL 17, 2020

Reuters, July 16, 2020. ”The good news is that SCCs (Standard Contractual Clauses) remain valid. But today’s Privacy Shield decision will create challenges for more than 5,300 businesses, 70% of which are SMEs, across a range of sectors at a time when the ability to send data abroad is crucial to the economic recovery from COVID-19,” said Victoria Espinel, CEO and President. Leia mais

bsa in the news

JUL 16, 2020

Washington Post, July 16, 2020. Companies blasted the move as the economy is struggling in the wake of the coronavirus. "This is an unwelcome development at a time when businesses on both sides of the Atlantic are focusing on recovering from the economic impacts of COVID-19 and are increasingly relying on data-driven tools and services to do so,” said Thomas Boué, director general of policy—EMEA at BSA, another tech trade group.” Leia mais

bsa in the news

JUL 16, 2020

Bloomberg Law, July 16, 2020. “The good news is that SCCs remain valid,” said Victoria Espinel, CEO and president of BSA | The Software Alliance. “But today’s Privacy Shield decision will create challenges for more than 5,300 businesses, 70 percent of which are SMEs, across a range of sectors at a time when the ability to send data abroad is crucial to the economic recovery from COVID-19.” Leia mais

bsa in the news

JUL 16, 2020

As an organization, BSA supports the development of relevant policy instruments and smart regulation that strengthen the Digital Single Market in Europe. In this respect, we acknowledge the importance that the E-Commerce Directive has played for the DSM, and of the necessity to account for the technological evolution of the ICT sector over the past twenty years, accounting of the different features and layers of the technology industry. BSA | The Software Alliance welcomes the opportunity to provide input to the Commission’s evaluation roadmap/inception Impact Assessment on the Digital Services Act. Leia mais

policy filing

JUN 30, 2020