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How to join the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield?

23. August 2016

In order to join the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield a company has to self-certify and therefore ensure the following requirements:

     1. The eligibility of the company has to be confirmed in order to participate in the

          EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.

     2. Development of a Privacy Policy that is compliant to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.

  • The Privacy Policy has to comply with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Principles.
  • The Privacy Policy has to refer to the Privacy Shield Compliance.
  • An accurate location for the Privacy Policy has to be provided and made sure that it is publicly available.

    3. Independent recourse mechanisms need to be identified.

  • Enforcement and Liability Principle: the company has to provide an independent recourse mechanism available to investigate unresolved complaints at no cost to the individual.

   4. Verification mechanisms need to be in place.

  • The company is required to have procedures in place for verifying compliance through self-assessments or third party assessments.

     5. Implementation of a person of contact.

  • The company is required to provide a contact with regard to questions, complaints, access requests, and any other issues arising under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.

 

Furthermore, the company has to pay a fee depending on the annual revenue:

Company’s Annual RevenueFee
$0 to $5 million$250
Over $5 million to $25 million$650
Over $25 million to $500 million$1,000
Over $500 million to $5 billion$2,500
Over $5 billion$3,250

Uber must pay a total over $1 million

14. June 2016

Accoring to the New York Times, Uber was fined €800,000, about $900,000, plus court fees, which adds to a total over $1 million, for running an illegal transport service and breaking privacy laws in France.

Half of those sanctions that Uber has to pay are “suspended sentences,” which means that Uber only needs to pay 50 percent of the fines as long as there are no further breaches of the law.

On top of that, Uber’s EMEA director Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty and Thibaud Simphal, the French company’s boss, were fined €30,000, about $34,000, and €20,000, about $22,500. The two men were detained for questioning by French authorities a year ago.

 

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