The European Commission announced earlier that it had reached an agreement with the United StatesEU-US Data Privacy Framework Agreement, thereby restoring the data transmission flow between the two parties.
The agreement was officially passed on July 7 and took effect immediately, resuming the flow of online data between the EU and the United States about three years after the abolition of the Privacy Shield agreement.
The EU's abolition of the long-standing Privacy Shield agreement with the United States has made it more difficult for companies like Google, Microsoft, and Meta to handle service data within the EU. They may even accidentally violate the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), resulting in restrictions on the implementation of many services in the EU market.
The agreement reached between the EU and the US is mainly about the latter agreeing that data transferred from the EU to the US will enjoy the same privacy protection as within the EU. Even when government agencies access data from the EU for specific needs, they can only use it within a necessary and reasonable scope.
In addition, the two sides will also establish a Data Protection Review Court (DPRC). Once it is discovered that an industry has violated regulations and accessed data, it can request the removal of the data. At the same time, EU citizens can also complain about data abuse through the review court.
For businesses, as long as they follow the new data privacy framework as a model, their services can freely exchange and use information within the EU and the US without having to take additional data protection measures.
Prior to this, as many economic activities between Europe and the United States still frequently rely on Internet transmission, the US government also proposedNew transatlantic data privacy frameworkIt regulates the reasonable scope of privacy monitoring conducted by the US authorities on the grounds of national security, as well as the principle of normal proportional use. It also regulates the remedial mechanism when US intelligence agencies improperly collect and use the personal privacy of European residents, thereby ensuring that the United States will uphold the same security concept as the EU in user privacy.
