On September 22, the European Commission and the U.S. Department of Commerce issued a press release calling for arbitrators to serve on the Arbitration Panel under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. The request follows the recently adopted "arbitration mechanism which Europeans whose personal data are transferred to certified U.S. companies may invoke when they consider that their data protection rights under the framework have been infringed."

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