“The new EU-US personal data protection framework will guarantee the security of data flows for Europeans and provide legal certainty for companies on both sides of the Atlantic,” said European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen. , it’s a statement.
The two agreements previously established to allow companies to transfer this data from Europe to the United States had been invalidated due to fears of surveillance by US intelligence services.
These appeals to the Court of Justice of the EU were brought by the Austrian privacy advocate Max Schrems.
On Monday he announced that he would take the case back to court, arguing that the new text did not improve the protection of the personal data of Europeans.
Von der Leyen and Washington reached an agreement in principle in March 2022 on a new legal framework to respond to the concerns expressed by justice.
Adopted pursuant to this agreement, the new legal framework provides additional safeguards to ensure that access by US intelligence agencies, in the name of national security, to data collected in Europe and transferred or hosted across the Atlantic, is limit to what is “necessary” and “proportionate”.
It also opens the possibility of appeal to European citizens who consider that their personal data has been illegally collected by the US intelligence services, allowing them to obtain the deletion or rectification of the same.
“The United States has made unprecedented commitments to implement the new framework,” von der Leyen declared.
Digital companies welcomed the announcement.
This is “good news for the thousands of companies, large and small, that transfer data across the Atlantic every day,” said Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl, CEO of DigitalEurope.
FUENTE: With information from AFP
