European Union privacy regulators said Wednesday they will postpone a possible crackdown on trans-Atlantic transfers of personal details about Europeans until March or April, offering a temporary reprieve that still leaves thousands of companies on uncertain legal footing in Europe.
A body representing the EU’s 28 national data protection authorities said they would take time to evaluate a last-minute, data-sharing accord, agreed by the EU and the U.S. on Tuesday, to determine whether the U.S. has made binding commitments that protect the privacy of EU residents when their data is stored on servers located on U.S. soil. The regulators had previously said they would begin enforcing a landmark court ruling that invalidated a prior data-sharing framework if the EU and U.S. couldn’t arrive at a new deal.
The court had argued the prior framework exposed Europeans to mass surveillance by the U.S. government, but regulators decided Wednesday that the new agreement—dubbed Privacy Shield—meant they had to take a fresh look.
By Sam Schchner and Natalia Drozdiak
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