Reactions were relieved following the publication, on Wednesday 19 December, of the European Commission's second evaluation of the transatlantic data protection system, the Privacy Shield (see EUROPE 12163).
While in July the European Parliament called for the suspension of the scheme if the US authorities did not comply fully with it by 1 September 2018 (see EUROPE 12056), the Commission decided to maintain it and considered that it continued to provide adequate data protection...