Legal opinion from the EU’s leading data protection watchdog criticise US Safe Harbour cloud safety principles for lack of coverage.

The opinion from the watchdog viewed Safe Harbour guidelines as being ineffective in comparison to guarantees and necessary contractual agreements established by a range of regulators.

The opinion from Article 29 by the Working Party watchdog concluded that: “sole self-certification with Safe Harbor may not be deemed sufficient in the absence of robust enforcement of data protection principles in the Cloud environment”.