European Data Protection Supervisor Giovanni Buttarelli has published his opinion on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield, which he says is “not robust enough to withstand future legal scrutiny,” V3 reports. While he expressed appreciation for the legislative effort behind the agreement, "significant improvements are needed should the European Commission wish to adopt an adequacy decision,” he wrote. Buttarelli isn’t the only recent Privacy Shield critic. “We keep thinking we’re going to reach a date and from that date onwards we won’t have any more issues. That won’t happen,” said Intel Global Privacy Officer David Hoffman, CIPP/US, in a POLITICO report. “The idea that we’re going to solve the international data transfer issue with Privacy Shield, to me, is an incorrect assumption.”
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