Is Privacy Shield a new Safe Harbour, MEPs in the civil liberties committee (LIBE) asked Tiina Astola, the director general at the European Commission’s DG Justice, a little concernedly on Monday 6 November. Astola was attending the LIBE committee to present the results of the initial assessment of the transatlantic arrangement on data protection.
Highlighting the positive conclusions of the Commission's report that was presented on 18 October (see EUROPE 11886), Astola assured the MEPs...