With the Privacy Shield on hold, EU Model Clauses are the principal legal means under which personal data transfers from Europe to the US are occurring. However, those too are under attack by privacy advocates. On May 25, 2016, the Irish Data Protection Authority issued a press release stating its intention to seek declaratory relief in the Irish High Court and a referral to the CJEU to determine the legal status of data transfers under Standard Contractual Clauses. At issue is the continued mass surveillance by the U.S. government, the same basis on which the Safe Harbor arrangement was struck down. [...] <http://blogs.dlapiper.com/privacymatters/irish-data-protection-authority-to-...>