EU-US data pact approved; privacy advocates to appeal because of US surveillance.

The European Commission today decided it is safe for personal data to be transferred from the European Union to US-based companies, handing a victory to firms like Facebook and Google despite protests from privacy advocates who worry about US government surveillance.

    • dumdum666@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      The European commission never was part of the solution but the problem. They just enjoy that the US can do the spying on EU citizens FOR them, while pretending that they wouldn’t install that kind of surveillance in Europe if they could.

      If this is something you don’t want for the EU, maybe you should support NOYB

      https://noyb.eu/en

  • JavaTea@feddit.nlEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Sooooo… the whole GDPR, including forcing USA companies to have servers in Europe, meant to protect Europeans from “laws” in the USA and other shady parts of the world…

    Oh wait… MONEYZZZZZ

  • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    No! Don’t do this Europe. Keep data away from Facebook and Google. Protect Europe from them.

    • Perry@kbin.social
      0·
      1 year ago

      I guess it depends on how this “Data Protection Review Court” actually functions in practice. What is written on paper doesn’t seem to really matter much to US agencies so we’ll see how strong these safeguards actually are.

      Nevertheless, it’s good to see that the new agreement is finally in place at least. We’ve had this legal vacuum for years now and it was completely unsustainable in the long run. Sans a complete legal overhaul of the nonexistent privacy laws in the US (hah good luck with that), this is probably the best we could hope for now.

  • Marxine@lemmy.mlEnglish
    11·
    1 year ago

    And then people don’t like to hear that at this point Europe are just a bunch of vassal estates to the USA. They could have fought against it and become more independent, but didn’t and now it’s too late.