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Privacy Shield under pressure as lawyers back MEPs' call for suspension
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/07/16/privacy_shield_under_pressure_as_lawyers_back_meps_call_for_suspension/
The US is under increasing pressure over Privacy Shield as an EU lawyers' association backed MEPs’ calls for a suspension of the deal.
Privacy Shield – which governs trans-Atlantic data flows, making it essential for the day-to-day workings of large numbers of companies – was hurriedly drawn up in summer 2016 after its predecessor, Safe Harbor, collapsed.