European Data Officials Not Satisfied With Final Privacy Shield Text

Data protection officials from European Union member states do not believe the European Commission's adequacy determination issued in adopting the Privacy Shield framework for transatlantic personal data transfers resolves their original critiques, despite the U.S. Commerce Department and commission updating the agreement prior to its endorsement. The member state data protection officials -- under the auspices of the Article 29 Working Party -- laid out their five remaining critiques of the final adequacy determination in a July 26 press release...