The European Commission and the United States confirmed today their worries about trade through Internet by officially presenting a new juridical framework that will rector personal transfer of data regarding electronic transactions. Both parts announced this Tuesday that decision with the aim of protecting the rights of EU citizens regarding the problems of massive espionage.
The European Commission and the United States confirmed today their worries about trade through Internet by officially presenting a new juridical framework that will rector personal transfer of data regarding electronic transactions. Both parts announced this Tuesday that decision with the aim of protecting the rights of EU citizens regarding the problems of massive espionage.
The European Commisioner of Justice, Vera Jourova, and the U.S. Secretary of Trade, Penny Pritzker,
presented the final version of the agreement, baptized as Privacy Shield.
This agreement should replace the Safe Harbour enacted in 2000, but that the European justice invalidated last October due to the massive espionage by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States. Both Safe Harbour and Privacy Shield regulate the transference of personal data between the Union and the United States, used with commercial aims mainly by Internet companies.
The growth of virtual social networks and the services of storage in the Cloud promote the creation of data centers in USA and other sites to store all type of information related to Internet users.
Details on internauts and their searches, that serve later advertisers to reach them more easily, were transformed in the lung of the so called world-wide-web.
According to Digital Europe, some 4500 enterprises of the digital economy are involved in the agreement.
Revelations of the former consultant of the NSA, Edward Snowden in 2013 showed that the program Prism of that U.S. agency, used Apple, Google, or Facebook to compile data on users.
This led the judicial system of the old continent to consider -in a ruling published last October- that the United States did not qualify as a secure country, given the revelations by espionage.
Such precedents lead now to a new juridical framework between both in order to protect electronic trade and its development, under the precept of the dangers regarding the data of clients.
Source: PL