European Union data protection authorities indicated in a recent statement that they will hold off for at least one year any new challenges to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.
As Compliance Week reported, the European Commission on July 12 adopted a final version of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, keeping intact all the main data protection requirements concerning companies that were set out in the proposed framework issued in February. In its original opinion on the draft EU-U.S. Privacy Shield issued in April, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), which acts as a policy-setting body for all EU data protection agencies, expressed concern and asked for various clarifications. In its latest statement, the WP29 said that a “number of these concerns remain regarding both the commercial aspects and the access by U.S. public authorities to data transferred from the EU.”
