{"id":69701,"date":"2015-10-12T10:41:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T10:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/product\/uncategorized\/global-privacy-requirements\/"},"modified":"2022-02-16T11:28:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T19:28:53","slug":"global-privacy-requirements","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/www.esri.com\/arcgis-blog\/products\/trust-arcgis\/administration\/global-privacy-requirements","title":{"rendered":"Global Privacy Requirements"},"author":3911,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":""},"categories":[37501],"tags":[24081,28841,24071],"industry":[],"product":[763582],"class_list":["post-69701","blog","type-blog","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administration","tag-ssamymlgp","tag-privacy","tag-security","product-trust-arcgis"],"acf":{"short_description":"On October 6, 2015 the European Court of Justice declared that Safe Harbor alone is no longer considered adequate privacy assurance by it...","flexible_content":[{"acf_fc_layout":"content","content":"<p>On October 6, 2015 the European Court of Justice declared that Safe Harbor alone is no longer considered adequate privacy assurance by itself for customers requiring EU&#8217;s data protection of personal data.\u00a0 Media ran to the presses with the issues this might entail for European customers of US-based data holdings, however the UK Information Commissioner was quick to state \u201cKeep calm, Safe Harbor is not the only route.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To ensure our customers know what privacy assurance is available now and what we are working on, we have updated our <a href=\"http:\/\/doc.arcgis.com\/en\/trust\/privacy\/privacy-tab-intro.htm\">Privacy overview page<\/a> on our Trust site. 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