U.S. and EU companies have a data-sharing goal of knowing what they can and cannot do with the data of EU citizens. The privacy shield framework meets this goal because it can be used to determine whether or not companies provide adequate privacy protection. If there was no such framework in place then there would be a lot more ambiguity and complexity about whether or not a particular company is adhering to the law of each EU member state. The Privacy Shield framework alleviates the concerns of many businesses because the framework may help simplify the process for companies, and perhaps protect them from litigation if the company infringes upon the laws of individual EU member states.
Citizens have a data-sharing goal of knowing that their personal data is protected. U.S. law provides less protection to non-Americans than it does to Americans. As a result there are concerns that American companies are not going to adequately protect the data of EU citizens. The Privacy Shield framework assists with this because it lays out certain standards that must be met before
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Participating companies must provide information about the types of personal data collected, the types of data collected, the third parties which have access to this data, etc. Furthermore, if a citizen is concerned that his or her data has been misused they have the ability to create a complaint that will be sent to data protection authorities.
Privacy regulators and governments have a data-sharing goal of setting up boundaries to delineate acceptable and non-acceptable accesses to information by governments. This issue is of particular concern due to the revelations over the amount of data that the U.S. government has access to. The Privacy Shield framework achieves this goal because it sets standards for how data can be used for purposes like law enforcement and national