Data protection authorities including the European Data Protection Supervisor will weigh in on the fate of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield tomorrow, and POLITICO reports that many are nonplussed by the data-transfer agreement. While Wednesday’s decision isn’t binding, the potential of a scrapped agreement makes organizations on both sides of the Atlantic nervous, of which the EU Commission, still planning to adopt the Shield by June, is sure to take note. “This puts companies in limbo,” said Fieldfisher’s Olivier Proust, CIPP/E. “[Companies] have to keep transferring data. Moving data [to Europe] isn’t a practical or viable solution. In a globally connected world, this is not a solution.”
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