Cross-border Data Transfer After Schrems II: The Globalization of EU Standards of Data Protection Through Adequacy Decisions or Trade Agreements?
The Schrems II judgement delivered on 16 July of 2020 was the second time that an EU court invalidated an adequacy decision authorizing EU-US data transfer. Doubts gather around the suitability of adequacy decision being an instrument to govern cross-border data transfer. This thesis therefore wishes to explore the deficiencies of such an instrument posed by the current regime as established in th
