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JUL 16, 2020 | GLOBAL

Bye, Bye Privacy Shield

Politico Cyber Insights, July 16, 2020

By Vincent Manancourt

Europe’s top court handed down a searing verdict on US surveillance powers, ruling for the second time that EU data would not be safe from snooping under a transatlantic data protection deal. The ruling, which cancels the Privacy Shield agreement, throws billions of dollars in digital trade into legal limbo and reignites a spat over surveillance that dates back more than five years to US whistleblower Edward Snowden’s revelations about American spying.

Thomas Boué, a policy wonk at influential tech lobby BSA | The Software Alliance said the invalidation of the Privacy Shield is “removing one of the most flexible and trusted compliance mechanisms, which are widely used by SMEs for transatlantic business.”

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Original Posting: https://pro.politico.eu/news/122746

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