EU Officials Critical of U.S. Data Pact Oversight as Review Looms

European Union officials are pressuring the U.S. government to do more on its end of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield program, ahead of a high-stakes bilateral review.

More than 3,600 U.S. companies, including Alphabet Inc.'s Google and Microsoft Corp., which are both certified, rely on the program to move data out of the EU. But EU officials warn that U.S. oversight has been anemic, leaving EU citizens without adequate data protections. They plan to raise their concerns at a review with U.S. officials in Brussels starting Oct. 18.

The EU is concerned about how the Commerce Department is performing its oversight ...