As I have often reminded netizens on this blog, be aware of the Internet laws everywhere to insure security, reliability and privacy for your email and cyber communication.
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The article below is an important one. Please make your self aware of it.
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New Privacy Deal May Not Actually Stop U.S. Snooping
An agreement to protect personal data sounds great, but
critics say it may not mean much in practice.
02/02/2016 06:44 pm ET
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Damon BeresTech Editor, The Huffington Post
A new deal reached
between the United States and European Union Tuesday would allow American
companies like Facebook to continuing collecting personal data from people who
live across the Atlantic.
While this might make business
easier for corporations, experts are worried that without reform of
surveillance laws in the United States, the new arrangement -- known as
the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield -- could still leave people vulnerable to the prying
eyes of the American government.
"While the agreement should
provide some increased privacy protections for the personal data of EU
citizens, ultimately without reform of U.S. surveillance law, Privacy Shield
will not be enough," Jens-Henrik Jeppesen, the director for European
affairs at the nonprofit Center for Democracy & Technology, told The
Huffington Post in an email.
There's A Complicated History Here
The deal is supposed to prevent
"indiscriminate mass surveillance" of the data transferred to the
U.S. from Europe. In other words, a European citizen using Facebook in Germany
should feel confident that the U.S. government won't be able to access their
photos and posts.
European citizens didn't have
that confidence until last fall, when the EU struck down the
"Safe Harbor" agreement. The terms of Safe Harbor allowed
the free exchange of data between the U.S. and Europe, which the EU ultimately
wasn't cool with. The whole kerfuffle started because an Austrian citizen named
Maximilian Schrems sued Facebook for holding on to his data
in the U.S. even after he'd deleted it in his home country -- which in
turn meant it could be accessed by U.S. public authorities.
If your head is spinning, you're not
alone. This exchange of data is a complicated mess in part because the policies
governing the old Safe Harbor agreement originated in the 1990s, before the
Internet was a) in everyone's pocket and b) full of multinational companies
trying to make money off your status updates and photo uploads. Schrems
essentially helped officials realize how much the world had changed.
What This New Deal Actually Means
In theory, the Privacy Shield
agreement should protect European citizens from having their data picked apart
by government agencies across the Atlantic. But there's concern that the pact
won't be upheld without an actual overhaul of U.S. surveillance law.
"Both the U.S. Congress and EU
Member States should act quickly to reform their surveillance laws and
practices to be more aligned with international human rights norms,"
Jeppesen told HuffPost.
He wasn't alone in expressing
skepticism. Edward Snowden, the famous whistleblower behind the 2013 National
Security Agency leaks, blasted the move on Twitter.
The Privacy Shield agreement rests on "written assurances" about surveillance
given to Europe by the U.S. There's a new "joint review" process to
help ensure that everything's aboveboard. European citizens will be able to
file formal complains, and there will be a "new ombudsperson" to
manage it all.
You'd think privacy advocates would
be elated, but it's unclear what any of this will mean in practice, as U.S. law
still allows the
surveillance of foreigners.
Given that, you can probably expect the deal to be challenged, if not
rejected altogether.
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