From Safe Harbour to Privacy Shield. The “medieval” sovereignty on personal data

The European Commission has defined a new agreement for the trans-border data flows from the European Union to the U.S., sixteen years after the Safe Harbor agreement, following the Edward Snowden’s revelations and a few months after the ECJ ruling on the Schrems case. The article focuses on the limits of this new agreement and, more in general, on the frail nature of the legal barriers posed by the EU to protect personal data in the context of global trans-border data flows.