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European Commission decided the US is safe from a privacy standpoint for data transfers (WTF?)

web.archive.org European Commission’s new attempt to ease EU-U.S. data transfers: Deeper look at the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework - Magnusson

The European Commission adopted its long-awaited adequacy decision for the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework on 10 July 2023. Many have...

European Commission’s new attempt to ease EU-U.S. data transfers: Deeper look at the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework - Magnusson

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/14006758

Yikes.

“In the adequacy decision, the European Commission estimated that the U.S. ensures a level of protection for personal data transferred from the EU to U.S companies under the new framework that is essentially equivalent to the level of protection within the European Union.” (emphasis added)

Does the EU disregard the Snowden revelations?

And what a missed opportunity. California state specifically has some kind of GDPR analogue, so it might be reasonable if CA specifically were to satisfy an adequacy decision, (still a stretch) but certainly not the rest of the country. Such a move could have motivated more US states to do the necessary.

I must say I’ve lost some confidence and respect for the #GDPR.

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