The United States and the European Union sign data transit agreement

The EU and the United States sealed a new agreement on Monday that allows the free flow of personal data from Europe to the North American country. There are positions against, based on the vulnerability of privacy

This Monday the signing of a new Privacy, data transit, personal data, United States, agreement, European Union was completed. Both regions had been working on it since 2022.

Privacy continues to be the main concern of data protection defenders in cases of espionage or data trafficking. However, according to the agreement that allows the free flow of data between the US and the EU, it does not represent a risk.

This is not the opinion of Max Schrems, a European activist who has filed court cases on the issue of violation of privacy, as well as espionage in communications and Internet browsing that Edward Snowden revealed at the time.

Privacy rules have been the subject of discussion between the United States and Brussels more than once. In addition, there is talk that in the United States “there is no federal privacy law. This has created uncertainty for tech companies like Google and Meta, and the possibility that the companies may have to keep the data of European individuals used to target advertising to them outside the United States.”

However, and according to the statements of the EU Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, at a press conference in Brussels: “Personal data can now flow freely and smoothly from the European Economic Area to the United States without further conditions or authorizations”.

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Source: apnews

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