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EU-US Privacy Shield in big trouble, may not pass muster, suggests German leak

11 April 2016

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"Leaked extracts from an imminent assessment of the EU-US Privacy Shield replacement for Safe Harbour suggests that a key group of EU data protection authorities will not support it in its present form.

It is expected that the Article 29 Working Party will say that it is "not yet in a position to confirm that the current draft adequacy decision does, indeed, ensure a level of protection [in the US] that is essentially equivalent to that in the EU." Any transatlantic data transfer scheme that does not provide an "essentially equivalent" level of protection is unlikely to withstand a legal challenge in the EU courts."

See the article: EU-US Privacy Shield in big trouble, may not pass muster, suggests German leak (Ars Technica, link)

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