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"Privacy Shield 2.0"? - First Reaction by Max Schrems

Data Transfers "Privacy Shield 2.0"?

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Data Transfers "Privacy Shield 2.0"? - First Reaction by Max Schrems Today Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and President Biden have announced an "agreement in principle" on a new EU-US data sharing system. Factsheet by the European Commission Factsheet by the White House Some facts upfront: There is only a political announcement, not a text that can be analyzed. As far as noyb is informed, such a text does not exist yet and will take a couple of months to be drafted. This is probably meant by an "agreement in principle": lawyers still have to find solutions to the problems raised by the Court of Justice (CJEU). So far no fully functioning solutions were delivered despite two years of discussions. What noyb hears is that the US is not planning to change its surveillance laws, but only foreseen executive reassurances (using EU language like "proportionality"). It is unclear how this would remotely pass the test by the CJEU, as US surveillance was already held not to be "proport

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