On March 17, the Article 29 Working Party issued a press release raising concerns about the Justice and Home Affairs Council's consensus draft General Data Protection Regulation. The Working Party stated that under the regulation, "it will be possible for a data controller to further process data even if the purpose is incompatible with the original one as long as the controller has an overriding interest in this processing." To prevent this, the Working Party called upon Member States to modify the regulation's wording to safeguard the "fundamental right to data protection."
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