The Privacy Shield is dead, long live the Standard Contractual clauses? - not so simple Slowly the dust settles on the decision of the European Court of Justice invalidating the Privacy Shield, the most used basis of transfer of personal data to the U.S. The Court found no reason to invalidate the other frequent basis, the Standard Contractual causes but attached stringent conditions to their use. Some see the apocalypse coming, some say we cannot dispose of U.S: companies and try to find other solution. Staying in the middle, we try to shed light on what the 129-pages judgment means. I asked Andrea Jelinek, chair of the EDPB on behalf of portfolio.hu - the answers were published in Hungarian , I am waiting for the English version. See below for a very interesting aspect of her answers. Indeed, the SCC can be used as a legal basis to transfer personal data to a third country, but only if its clauses can be complied with. It was often said that the new data protection legal framewor