The Swiss Government and the U.S. Department of Commerce announced their agreement on Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield framework (the
"Swiss Privacy Shield"), a new transatlantic personal data framework that aimed to establish comparable protections for data transferred or accessed by the U.S. as those secured by the European Union under the
European Union (EU)-U.S. Privacy Shield framework.
The Swiss Privacy Shield supersedes the U.S.-Swiss international agreement called "U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor", legitimacy of which has been in question since the Court of Justice of the EU rendered a judgment invalidating the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Agreement. Following the mentioned judgment, the framework was revised and EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework, adopted on July 12, 2016, replaced U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Agreement.