Wednesday, 13 April 2016
The EU’s consumer protection group has rejected in its current form the new rules written to govern EU-US data transfers. Despite the new regs receiving early support from Microsoft, the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has fallen on the side of Snowden in criticizing the US government and European Commission’s replacement for Safe Harbor. Although the set of documents has “some improvements compared to Safe Harbor,” the group said in a meeting to discuss the proposal that it could still allow for “massive and indiscriminate” collection of EU citizens’ data by the US. It also raised concerns about the new US-based independent ombudsperson role and…
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