In another chapter in the saga of cross-border transfers of
personal data between the EU and the U.S., the Members of the
European Parliament (MEPs) Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice,
and Home Affairs formally opposes the approval of the EU-U.S. Data
Privacy Framework. This comes after President Biden already
attempted to address the concerns of the original Privacy Shield
through executive order, and suggestions by Max Schrems that he
would file suit almost immediately upon adoption. In the MEPs
opinion, one of the big sticking points is the proposed redress
mechanism through the to-be-created "Data Protection Review
Court" and its potential lack of independence.
The European Parliament Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice
and Home Affairs does not want the European Commission to extend an
adequacy decision to the U.S. based on the proposed EU-U.S. Data
Privacy Framework. In their opinion, committee members concluded
the proposed DPF "fails to create actual
