MOSCOW (Sputnik) — On February 2, Brussels and Washington agreed on a framework transfer deal regulating the flow of data across the Atlantic, called Privacy Shield.
"The possibility is left in the shield for bulk collection, which – if massive and indiscriminate – is not acceptable," Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin, the chair of the Article 29 Working Party that represents 28 EU data protection agencies, was quoted by The Financial Times as saying.
The EU-US Privacy Shield replaces the 2000 Safe Harbor, which the European Court of Justice invalidated in October as it was considered to provide inadequate personal data protection.
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The Article 29 Working Party said in early February it would hold off the enforcement of the agreement until mid-to-late April.
The first annual review of the EU-US Privacy Shield is expected in 2017.
