SAN FRANCISCO ­­— Companies that thought the new U.S.-EU “Privacy Shield” would restore legal certainty around trans-Atlantic data transfers may want to think again.

On Wednesday in Brussels, a committee of Europe’s data-protection regulators known as the Article 29 Working Party lambasted the draft privacy framework as failing to uphold key elements of EU law and to sufficiently limit U.S. collection of EU citizens’ data.

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