Privacy Shield is still very much a work in process, but the heavy lifting is done and we’ve moved to the examination phase. As you prepare for “Regulating Technology on Both Sides of the Atlantic,” at 10:45 a.m. today, you can get Executive Director of World Privacy Forum Pam Dixon’s take on who the Privacy Shield winners and losers are, should the document become a finalized adequacy finding by the EU. Of course, Dixon writes, “With the Article 29 Working Party opinion on the Privacy Shield forthcoming in one week, there is a chance the EU may not give final approval, and there’s perhaps a greater chance that the EU Court of Justice will eventually kill the Privacy Shield on the same grounds as Safe Harbor.” Should that happen, the scorecard will look measurably different.
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