Understand 'Safe Harbor', Schrems v Facebook in under 300 words 'Safe Harbor' is now defunct because the European Court of Justice found the following: (a) There is no general privacy law or other measures enacted in the US that shows the US offers "an adequate level of protection" for personal data relating to European data subjects; (b) Public law enforcement authorities which obtain …
The likelihood of getting America to have decent data protection laws and have security agencies abide by that law I would frankly say was nil. Probably even less.
More likely; threats and coercions will be applied to EU members to get them to fall in line with the American way of thinking.
As much as this issue will impact on American business it will impact on ourselves and America would like nothing more than causing deep fractures within the EU. Its unity is pretty fragile as it is and America won't likely be adverse to stirring things up further.
Nice to know. Good news.
Um, just one thing : who's going to control that ?
Because right now there are a lot of people in high places with the habit of passing data by the petabyte without even blinking.
I don't think they're going to change their habit any time soon when everything that is passed along is done for "National Paranoia" and under the radar.
But one can always hope. . .
There's the protection (supposedly) that affect corporates and the outrage over the agencies. But what about the "sharing" aspect by the TLA's and FLA's? The backdoor of one agency sending data to another such that certain agencies can't slurp their own citizens but get the data from another agency not of that country. Will that sharing be addressed?
that the American government, or the big corporations affected by this ruling, would ever enact such basic legislation. If it isn't in their constitution, then it aint gonna happen. Even the 'rights' granted in that constitution are abused almost daily. (Source: Thank you Mr. Snowdon.)
America has a problem understanding "Borders" and cannot seem to understand that the EU likes to do things our own way, and argue & squabble a lot too.
The EU is not under US jurisdiction, that's a simple statement, but it's one that the US government seems to find impossible to understand.
Dear US Government,
Grow up. Seriously, GROW UP! As a country get some maturity. (You are allowed by your constitution to bear arms to fight your own government should the need arise. Perhaps that time is approaching fast.)
Get your security services under control, and acting lawfully. I know that this seems like a silly idea, but it would have saved you a whole bundle of trouble if you've done it a few decades ago. (Us to to tell the truth.)
Please remember that when you piss people off, then they tend to get a bit angry, and like to make your life difficult. That's not attacking the USA, that's payback. That's why diplomacy evolved. To talk things over without necessarily shooting people.Diplomacy is NOT saying "you lot don't know your own laws." Diplomacy isn't saying "but it's legal by OUR laws."
Perhaps you'd like to think about this, what would happen if the EU got it's collective act together and became a unified organisation? The EU is bigger than the US, combined it has a greater GDP. It would be a massive economic power, and would dwarf the US.
Now think about pissing that beast off?
"Perhaps you'd like to think about this, what would happen if the EU got it's collective act together and became a unified organisation? The EU is bigger than the US, combined it has a greater GDP. It would be a massive economic power, and would dwarf the US."
I see that happening right after the UK adopts the Euro and goes fully metric.
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