The European Commission made a new announcement data transfer The agreement reached with the United States on Monday aims to end legal uncertainty for thousands of companies transferring personal data across the Atlantic.
However, the move was immediately criticized by the non-profit group Knob, led by privacy activist Max Schrems, which said it would challenge the agreement.
The Commission and the United States have been struggling to reach a new deal after Europe’s top court struck down two previous agreements that would limit the transfer of personal data across the Atlantic for services ranging from cloud infrastructure to payroll and banking. Used to underline
The EU executive said the steps taken by the United States have ensured an adequate level of protection for personal data of Europeans transferred across the Atlantic for commercial use.
It called for new binding security measures, such as limiting access to US intelligence services European Union Making the data “necessary and proportionate” and establishing a Data Protection Review Court for Europeans address concerns raised by Europe’s top court.
EU Justice Chief Didier Randers said he was confident of handling any legal challenges.
“The principles of the data privacy framework are sound and I am confident that we have made significant progress that meets the requirements of the European Court of Justice’s case law,” he told a news conference.
“I’m very determined to fight, defend the new data agreement.”
Schrems said the latest amendment was insufficient.
“Just declaring that something is ‘new’, ‘robust’ or ‘effective’ cannot be ruled out before a court. To make this work, we need to change US surveillance law,” he said in a statement. will be needed.”
“We already have various options for the challenge, however we are fed up with this legal ping-pong,” Schrems said. We currently expect it to be back in court early next year. “
lobbying group DigitalEurope, whose members include airbus, Amazon, Apple, Ericsson, Nokia, PHILIPS And SAMSUNG Deal welcomed.
“Data flows are the basis of the EU’s annual EUR 1 trillion (roughly Rs. 90,75,250 crores) service exports to the United States, and this decision will give companies more confidence to do business and help our economies grow,” Its director general said Cecilia Bonfeld-Dahl.
Earlier this year, the European Data Protection Board, the EU’s privacy watchdog, said the latest data agreement still fell short and urged the Commission to do more to protect Europeans’ privacy rights.
Europe’s top court quashed two previous deals following challenges by Schrems over concerns about access to private data of European citizens by US intelligence agencies.
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