Don’t bet on anything happening for at least a couple of years on U.K. adequacy post-Brexit, advised European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli at the launch of his annual report in Brussels Feb. 26. The EDPS cast doubt on the future of the Privacy Shield agreement and called on the EU to continue to be an “ambassador” to the world on data protection. “Privacy Shield is an instrument of the past,” Buttarelli said, adding it’s an improvement over its predecessor, Safe Harbor, but “is not the one of my dreams.” Jennifer Baker has the story for The Privacy Advisor.
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