Following the European Court of Justice’s decision to strike down the EU-US Privacy Shield mechanism for data transfer,^[1] the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner reviewed the decision and came to the same conclusion.^[2] Data transfers between the European Union and the United States are now in regulatory limbo as the EU side has deemed the U.S. data protection framework inadequate—primarily due to surveillance concerns—while the U.S. still acknowledges Privacy Shield. No new mechanism has yet come forward besides standard contractual clauses.