The future of "Safe Harbour"

Published on 04 May 2015

The future of the “Safe Harbor” is uncertain. Questions about its effectiveness have been brought to the fore in the wake of the privacy and data security scandal that followed Edward Snowden’s revelations about surveillance by US government agencies.

The Article 29 Working Party (WP29), a European advisory body on data protection and privacy issues, is the latest organisation to wade into the debate.