{"id":2036,"date":"2016-02-03T04:53:47","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T12:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:16:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T22:16:02","slug":"understanding-the-new-privacy-non-deal-between-the-us-and-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.privateinternetaccess.com\/blog\/understanding-the-new-privacy-non-deal-between-the-us-and-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the new privacy (non-)deal between the US and EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Yesterday, the US and EU announced that they had come to an agreement regarding US corporations\u2019 future use of EU personal data, after the European Court of Justice struck down the previous so-called Safe Harbor agreement. However, a closer look shows the new \u201cdeal\u201d to be little more than an attempt to save face.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The European Union has long bent over backwards to give the United States anything it asked for on its own citizens. The United States asked for passenger name records on all flights in the EU, and received it (\u201cPNR data\u201d). The United States asked for data on all financial transactions (\u201cSWIFT\u201d), and received it.<\/p>\n<p>One has to ask why this is in the interest of the European Union. It mostly isn\u2019t, actually. But the EU is a multifaceted bureaucracy with many competing interests, and the executive branch \u2013 the European Commission \u2013 has historically been a lot more willing to sell out EU citizen interests when the US asks for it. This was not just evident in the cases above, but also with lopsided \u201ctrade deals\u201d such as ACTA. The primary counterweights to the Commission are the European Parliament, which has elected representatives and is some equivalent of the legislative branch, and the European Court of Justice, which is the equivalent of the judicial branch.<\/p>\n<p>It is in the light of this that the Commission\u2019s previous \u201cSafe Harbor\u201d arrangement was struck down by the European Court of Justice. There are very strong privacy safeguards for personal data in the European Union, and the Commission had basically said that as long as US companies promise to adhere to those safeguards, they are free to take the data to servers elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the European Court of Justice cleared its throat, said \u201cNSA\u201d, said \u201cmass surveillance\u201d, and said that those US companies don\u2019t have agency to make such a promise as long as the US government is doing what it\u2019s doing, and promptly cancelled the Commission\u2019s \u201cSafe Harbor\u201d arrangement. This was an embarrassment to the European Commission and the United States alike (the latter trying to pretend that mass surveillance doesn\u2019t exist, or at least doesn\u2019t matter).<\/p>\n<p>It is in the light of this embarrassment that yesterday\u2019s announcement must be understood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>There is no new deal. There is no new text of a new deal. There is, at most, an agreement to come to an agreement that doesn\u2019t exist yet.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is an attempt to try to save face.<\/p>\n<p>The gist of the agreement that doesn\u2019t exist yet appears to be some kind of guarantee from the United States to exempt European Union citizen data from mass surveillance when it\u2019s handled by United States corporations, as a precondition for those US corporations handling the EU citizen data in the first place. But this is a contradiction in terms: the mass surveillance cannot tell European data apart from other data without first sniffing it up and looking at it. The action of sorting requires observation.<\/p>\n<p>If the European Commission moves ahead with a new Safe Harbor that looks like this, or like the old one, the European Court of Justice will just nix it again. That\u2019s hardly going to save face in the long run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, the US and EU announced that they had come to an agreement regarding US corporations\u2019 future use of EU personal data, after the European Court of Justice struck down the previous so-called Safe Harbor agreement. However, a closer look shows the new \u201cdeal\u201d to be little more than an attempt to save face. 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