Top Court Scraps EU-US Data Pact In New Blow To Brussels
July 16, 2020
A crucial online data arrangement between Europe and the US was invalidated on Thursday, as a top EU court decision over Facebook threw trans-Atlantic big tech into legal limbo.
The decision stemmed from a legal complaint by Austrian activist Max Schrems, who in 2015 scuppered a previous EU-US deal on which tech giants depended to do business.
“It seems we scored a 100 percent win,” Schrems said on Twitter.
“For our privacy, the US will have to engage in serious surveillance reform to get back to a ‘privileged’ status for US companies,” he said.