28 February 2019 is the new deadline imposed by the European Commission on the United States to appoint a permanent Ombudsman to handle complaints from Europeans whose data are processed by American companies, as part of the 'Privacy Shield’ scheme.
The results of the second evaluation (see EUROPE 12120) of this transatlantic data protection system, which has been active since 2016, published on Wednesday 19 December, confirm that most of the recommendations made during the first...