{"id":3197,"date":"2015-10-12T18:02:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thediplomaticenvoy.com\/?p=3197"},"modified":"2020-02-05T15:16:02","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T20:16:02","slug":"european-court-of-justice-ends-safe-harbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/thediplomaticenvoy\/2015\/10\/12\/european-court-of-justice-ends-safe-harbor\/","title":{"rendered":"European Court of Justice Ends Safe Harbor"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Keith Barnes<\/a><\/strong>
\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The European Court of Justice struck down on October 6 an agreement between the United States and the European Commission known as\u00a0Safe Harbor, which allows\u00a0companies\u00a0to \u201cself-certify\u201d that they\u00a0meet the data protection standards outlined in the 1995 European Data Protection Directive 95\/46.<\/p>\n

This landmark directive forbids any transfer of personal data to a server located outside the European Economic Area (EEA)–which includes the European Union, Norway, Liechtenstein, and Iceland–unless the receiving country has an \u201cadequate level of data protection.”<\/p>\n

The ECJ ruled that Safe Harbor\u00a0did not sufficiently protect European citizens\u2019 right to privacy, due to the exposure of the National Security Agency’s spying activities\u00a0by individuals such as former NSA contractor Edward Snowden.<\/p>\n

Without the protection\u00a0of Safe Harbour, companies will now be forced to rely on individual \u201cmodel contract clauses,” with which\u00a0the European Commission deems a contract concerning the transfer of personal data sufficiently protected, according to lawyers Martin Braun and Christian Duvernoy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The ruling\u00a0has created a firestorm within the tech industry, with Silicon Valley companies such as Google, Facebook, and Apple racing to maintain operations without impeding service, according to the Guardian<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Although European Commission First Vice President Frans Timmermans has stated that the free movement of data will\u00a0continue unimpeded, as the Commission can still use the \u201cmodel contract clauses\u201d on a case-by-case basis, companies have called for a longer-term\u00a0solution.<\/p>\n

In the United States, the question has arisen about\u00a0the effect of the ruling on American\u00a0data privacy rights. According to the International Business Times<\/a>, the first step would be to \u201creform Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act, which justifies the mass collection of phone calls, emails, Facebook messages, Internet browsing history and other information\u2013often without a warrant.\u201d<\/p>\n

This could be a long way off while\u00a0government spying programs are still considered integral to counterterrorism efforts. The International Business Times suggests that Congress could pass the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights unveiled by President Obama in 2012 as a \u201cblueprint\u201d for how to improve U.S.\u00a0data privacy. Said\u00a0bill details provisions such as controls by individuals over their information and the ability to set limits, barriers, and safeguards on the type\u00a0of data collected.<\/p>\n

Many of the companies that will\u00a0be affected by this ruling have already established\u00a0backup data centres within Europe to \u201cavoid clashes with regulators,\u201d according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. These include Google\u2019s centers in Belgium and Finland, and Facebook\u2019s in Ireland.<\/p>\n

Other companies such as Amazon are relying\u00a0on the model contracts to continue providing service. Still others have begun shifting their data centers to Switzerland to take advantage of Swiss\u00a0privacy laws. Such centers are easily considered adequate by\u00a0the European Union, according to Les Echos<\/a>, a French business daily.<\/p>\n

The ruling does not explicitly end communications for companies without model contracts, but simply puts judicial oversight in the hands of national regulators. These regulators can now investigate contracts and practices of individual companies and \u201csuspend them if they don\u2019t provide sufficient protections,” the Wall Street Journal reports.<\/p>\n

This will certainly create an uncomfortable legal burden for the European operations of certain corporations\u00a0and, with no end in sight for Europe’s political impasse, will remain unresolved for the foreseeable future. With David Cameron\u2019s goose-stepping over Britain\u2019s EU referendum, Angela Merkel\u2019s refugee conundrum, and Francois Hollande\u2019s numerous domestic policy failures, who knows if European\u00a0heads of state will ever place data regulation\u00a0on their respective to do lists?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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