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"Privacy Shield" is trying to pull Europeans' legs - PI racketeering

  • 12-07-2016 6:02pm
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    Impetus
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    Jan-Philipp Albrecht is a Green/EFA MEP who worked as lead negotiator on EU data protection reform. Max Schrems is a leading European privacy campaigner whose Facebook challenge ended the Safe Harbour agreement


    They wrote this article, which appeared in The Irish Times today.

    http://www.irishtimes.com/opinion/privacy-shield-the-new-eu-rules-on-transatlantic-data-sharing-will-not-protect-you-1.2719018

    “Does Privacy Shield protect the privacy of European users when their data is sent to the United States? Various indicators suggest it does not.

    “With regard to the private sector, it is painfully obvious that the rules give nowhere near the level of protection and principles afforded by the EU. For example, if you share your personal information with your doctor, you reasonably expect that he will only use this information for the purpose of curing you – not to gossip behind your back. This expectation is enshrined in EU law as “purpose limitation”.

    "Privacy Shield allows the sharing of your data for very broad and generic purposes, such as “for all services we may provide to you and others”. This undermines a very crucial protection. Many other data protection rules, such as the deletion of data or the sharing of data, are interlinked with this principle.

    "They would first have to know which US company was using their data, and then contact the company and actively “opt out”. This gives US companies a significant competitive advantage over European firms. Under the European “opt-in” system, companies typically have to ask customers for consent.

    "Legal redress against measures in the public sector is little more than a farce. An EU citizen may address an ombudsperson in the US, which is not a court or independent body, but an undersecretary of the US government.

    "Just like the farce of a government that one has to put up with in both Brussels and Dublin, that has presided over this change from safe harbour to “privacy shield”. This does nothing to shield one’s privacy. Rather it allows US companies to steal and peddle your data with anybody they deem to be a ‘business partner’ – eg anybody who buys their intelligence re-sale offerings."


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