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On 13 April 2016, the Article 29 Working Party (the “WP29”), a group composed of representatives from the national data protection authorities in Europe, published its opinion on the EU/US Privacy Shield. The Privacy Shield is the proposed new framework governing data transfers from Europe to the United States (the previous framework, Safe Harbour, being declared “invalid” by the European Court of Justice in October 2015).
The WP29 welcomed the significant improvements brought by the Privacy Shield following the Safe Harbour decision, however it lamented the overall lack of clarity in the documentation and highlighted several shortcomings:
What next?
Whilst the WP29 is an advisory body, and the Commission is not obliged to follow its opinion, its representatives from the Member States are still able to put pressure on the Commission to make the suggested changes. Privacy Shield still needs to be formally adopted by the Commission, so there is still the opportunity to make the recommended revisions and clarifications. However, this leaves us in a state of uncertainty as to what will happen, and highlights that the Privacy Shield is still very much a work in progress.
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