EU-US Privacy Shield ‘secure harbour’ comes with assurances against US mass surveillance and the protection of EU citizens’ dataEurope and the US maintain reached a new “robust deal over data sharing that will ensure the safety of EU citizens’ data when transferred across the Atlantic by firms such as Facebook,Apple and Google.
The new EU-US privacy shield will allow companies to transfer and process EU citizens’ data in the US given certain privacy guarantees. It comes after the original data-sharing secure harbour agreement from 2000 used by 4500 companies was struck down in October by the European court of justice, following legal action by an Austrian privacy campaigner following the Snowden revelations of mass US government surveillance.
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Source: theguardian.com