Will the U.S. Ever be Adequate? A Review of EU and U.S. Data Protection Regimes

Jessica Medvec, Corporate Counsel, Hyster-Yale Group, Inc.

Individual data protection rights all over the world have been thrust into the corporate spotlight recently due to the passage of broad legislation in the European Union with global ramifications and high profile court decisions. The new rules have raised significant concerns related to increased constraints on the transfer of personal data of European natural persons to third countries and specifically to the United States. Under European law, there must be an adequate level of protection in place prior to transferring personal data outside the confines of its originating country. Although some countries have been able to obtain an adequacy decision from the European Commission on a national basis, protections provided in the United States have long been considered inadequate in the eyes of European data privacy legislation. For nearly two decades this gap was bridged by a policy agreement between the U.S. and the EU. But when that agreement was ultimately found to lack the requisite adequacy required under European law, U.S. organizations were left wondering: Will the United States ever be willing or able to live up to European data privacy standards?

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USA Data Protection Engineering November 2018 Vol.11, No. 45, Autumn 2018

Jessica Medvec

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Ms. Medvec is Corporate Counsel at Hyster-Yale Group, Inc. Her responsibilities include global data protection compliance, general corporate compliance duties, public company SEC reporting, maintenance of corporate records, and legal systems administration. She received a Juris Doctor from the Cleveland Marshall College of Law in 2013. She is a member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, the Society for Corporate Governance and the Association of Corporate Counsel. Ms. Medvec is a Certified Information Privacy Professional- United States (CIPP/US) and Europe (CIPP/E). She is admitted to the practice of law in Ohio.

Hyster-Yale Group, Inc.

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Hyster-Yale Group, Inc., designs, engineers, manufactures, sells and services a comprehensive line of lift trucks and aftermarket parts marketed globally primarily under the Hyster® and Yale® brand names.

USA Data Protection Engineering November 2018 Vol.11, No. 45, Autumn 2018