The agreement has come to since EU court struck down on data protection for desktop users.
The background to the ruling was an individual notification of this by the Irish data protection authority to have transferred data to the United States, data which could then end up in the wrong hands, as US security.
When the EU ruling came last fall it hit like a bombshell in the IT world. It could have major implications for US giants such as Twitter, Google and Microsoft to name a few.
Over 4000 US companies use the so-called Safe Harbour agreement on transfer of personal data.
– This is great. It is about trade between the US and Europe, said the Data Inspectorate General Counsel Hans-Olof Lindblom when EU ruling came in the fall.
The signed new agreement will reportedly replace the old Safe Harbor agreement.
The agreement includes the annual reviews should be made to keep the system abreast of developments.
– We want to ensure that data continue to be protected when European citizens’ data is data sent to the United States. Secure and transparent data exchange is very important in our digital world, underlines the EU Commissioner Andrus Ansip, who is responsible for digital affairs, at a press conference in Strasbourg.
– As for the US intelligence services access to data on European citizens has we first received detailed written assurances from the United States about the protection mechanisms and constraints, said Ansip.
– The US has made it clear that they do not perform any mass surveillance of Europeans.
– This. . . will function as a process, with yearly adjustment clauses. It becomes a problem, we can immediately solve them, said Ansip.
His colleague věra jourová, EU Justice Commissioner, expects the new system to withstand legal scrutiny.
– In the final negotiations used we are in the verdict (from ECJ) as a benchmark. . . Of course there may be new legal studies, but I am quite convinced that this will withstand such scrutiny, says Jourova.
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