Customer data sent between Europe and the United States has for 15 years been governed by the so-called safe harbor principles. Now the European Court of Justice annulled it.
Agreement contains the rules on privacy and data protection that controls when companies transfer customer data from the EU to the United States – something that many businesses do on a regular basis. As a rule, data is collected in Europe and sent across the Atlantic to be analyzed so that they can be used, for example, targeted advertising. And it’s not just IT companies who leans against the agreement, including the travel industry, logistics companies, and many other companies with a global presence affected in one way or another. In the US there are over 5 000 companies registered as users of the Agreement.
After an unusually short period of reflection opted Court today to follow the Advocate General Yves Bot’s proposal to scrap the agreement. According to Data Protection Directive, a third party, in this case the United States, meet sufficient data protection, something that does not happen in the United States. Where foreign nationals are not the same right to have their data protected by US citizens.
“In terms of national security, public interest and the observance of the law in the United States takes precedence over safe harbor. This means that US companies are obliged to unreservedly abandon the system of protection when they are in conflict with any such requirement, “the European Court of Justice.
Background for the court takes up the rules after they have been used for 15 years is a lawsuit between the Austrian Max Schrems and Facebook. He argues that the social network had abused his tasks by moving them to the United States, where they fall straight down into the NSA’s pocket. Something EU Court therefore agrees with.
IDG.se will follow up the decision during the day.
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