On December 5, 2014, the Article 29 Working Party issued recommendations to ensure adherence to fundamental rights of privacy by intelligence and security services and to improve supervision of these entities' activities while maintaining national security. The recommendations address the applicability of EU data protection law to secondary transfers of EU data and whether a third country's national security interests can justify the transfer of EU personal data.

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