SECTORAL POLICIES / Justice

Three years later, ‘Privacy Shield’ is still struggling to convince everyone of its effectiveness

Brussels, 09/01/2020 (Agence Europe)

After 3 years of application, the transatlantic data protection mechanism, the ‘Privacy Shield’, continues to worry many stakeholders who doubt its effectiveness in protecting Europeans' data processed by US companies. On Thursday 9 January, the European Commission and the European Data Protection Authorities appeared before the European Parliament's Civil Liberties Committee to present their radically different views on the progress made.

In the eyes of the European Commission,...