Post Privacy Shield, where is the new US-EU agreement on data transfer?
Are the US and the EU close to a new agreement on transatlantic data flows? For Washington yes, for Brussels no. What Politico writes
A year after the Privacy Shield collapsed, there is still no new US-EU agreement on the transfer of Europeans' personal data across the Atlantic for commercial use.
But a new deal is close at hand for Washington's upper echelons, Politico reported.
Since the EU Court of Justice canceled the so-called "Privacy Shield" agreement last July , negotiators on both sides of the Atlantic have been working on a replacement agreement that would allow companies to transfer European data to the United States with sufficient guarantees. against U.S. privacy surveillance and security laws.
So far, EU officials have rejected claims that a deal can be concluded before the end of the month. Senior officials from the United States and the European Union will meet in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 29 for the inaugural meeting of the US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC).
For Brussels, even an agreement before the end of the year would already be a twist, reports Politico .
Big corporations on both sides of the Atlantic have pleaded with EU officials to get any deal but as soon as possible.
The continuing uncertainty over the talks will be a major blow to the thousands of businesses that rely on the ability to transfer data from the EU to the US. The so-called Schrems II ruling of last July not only annulled the Privacy Shield, but also raised doubts about the lawfulness of the standard contractual clauses.
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THE WASHINGTON LOCATION
According to Politico , "Washington has informed industrial groups and privacy activists that it has proposed" enhanced "solutions to overcome the impasse, although details on what has been offered remain scarce."
US officials say political deal could be announced on Sept. 29 for inaugural US-EU Trade and Technology Council (TTC) meeting
AND THAT OF BRUSSELS
“We are working to have specific results that we do not yet know if they will be mature. But it is a fact that we will not reach any kind of maturity when it comes to data flows, ”said Margrethe Vestager, EU digital manager, in reference to the upcoming TTC meeting.
As Politico points out, “the European Commission is eager to avoid the ignominy of having a third data transfer agreement canceled by Europe's highest court. To uphold the pact, EU officials said, the United States must make legislative changes to restrict how US national security agencies can access European data and offer European citizens a more meaningful way to challenge it. access to US courts ".
USA PRESSURES
"The free flow of data with privacy protection is what keeps our businesses and economies competitive," US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo told a conference in Estonia earlier this month. The US official also recently met with Commissioners Thierry Breton, Didier Reynders and Věra Jourová to insist on the need to reach a data transfer agreement as soon as possible.
“We all consider privacy a fundamental value and we all appreciate data protection,” Raimondo added during his speech in Tallinn. "Bridging the gap between our data protection systems requires building on these commonalities and doing it together."
However, when US officials meet with EU officials in Pittsburgh, they will discuss supply chains and platform regulation, but not transatlantic data transfer, according to Brussels officials.
For European officials, the negotiations for a new post-Privacy Shield agreement require separate discussions.
This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/innovazione/post-privacy-shield-a-che-punto-e-il-nuovo-accordo-usa-ue-sul-trasferimento-dati/ on Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:00:39 +0000.