American companies using 'backup' as an excuse to send EU PI to the US

Impetus

Quoting from the Wall Street Journal:

"One of the last legal methods that companies have to store Europeans’ data—everything from Swedish salary files to Spanish selfies—on servers in the U.S. was thrust deeper into limbo Wednesday when a privacy regulator said it would ask Europe’s top court to review its legality.

"The Irish Data Protection Commissioner’s office said it plans to ask the European Union’s Court of Justice to review backup contractual language that Facebook Inc. and thousands of other companies use to justify sending personal information about Europeans to the United States. The same court last year invalidated the main legal framework the companies had used to do so."

One should not forget that the biggest 'backup' issue is the SWIFT database held at La Hulpe in Belgium. This contains virtually every cross-border bank transfer of money in the world, and it also runs SEPA, which operates the domestic Eurozone direct debit and other payment data. I don't want my 'ESB bill payment' or anything else to end up in the hands of a country engaged in global terrorism/power grab. It is none of their business. European governments are being negligent in allowing this data gathering monster to have access to our payment system platform.

It is time that https://www.privacycommission.be took legal advice at the highest level on SWIFT/SEPA, and took action against the transfer of European payment data to the US

www.wsj.com

utmbuilder

when you get that deep into the law , it makes you question the law