Brussels, 18/03/2016 (Agence Europe) - Several of the participants at a public hearing organised by the European Parliament's civil liberties committee on Thursday 17 March (see EUROPE 11501), including Austrian Max Schrems, were critical of the controversial EU-US Privacy Shield agreement on the transfer of European citizens' personal data to the United States.
Although the European Commission is happy with this new agreement which, it claims, provides the necessary safeguards guaranteeing...