Data security expert Detlef Schmuck from TeamDrive: “Political agreement on EU-US data protection is worthless. It is hard to imagine that the USA will submit to the data protection dictates of the EU.” As early as June 2020, the ECJ declared the transatlantic data protection agreement Privacy Shield invalid.
"The so-called political agreement on data protection between the European Union and the USA is currently not worth a damn," says data security expert Detlef Schmuck. The President of the EU Commission Ursula von der Leyen and US President Joe Biden recently surprised with such an announcement. “The decision of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) of June 2020, according to which the transatlantic data protection agreement Privacy Shield is invalid, still applies. Every new regulation of any kind will have to answer to the same court,” Detlef Schmuck, Managing Director of the Hamburg data service provider TeamDrive, is certain.
US data protection not at EU level
He explains: “It is up to the USA to raise data protection there to the level of the European Union. An executive order from the US President will not suffice for this, it will depend on the introduction of data protection in the USA that is comprehensible and enforceable for European citizens. Even if a new agreement, let's call it Privacy Shield 2.0, should come about as planned by the end of this year, there will be lawsuits against it and the European Court of Justice will not rule on it for several years."
DSGVO or GDPR for the USA hardly conceivable
According to the data security expert, the probability that after the Safe Harbor Agreement overturned by the ECJ in 2015 and the end of the Privacy Shield in 2020, the third attempt at a legally binding data transfer agreement between the EU and the USA is "extremely low". Detlef Schmuck: “With the General Data Protection Regulation, the EU has brought the protection of personal data to the highest level in the world. It is hard to imagine that the USA will submit to this data protection dictate. Many business models of US companies would simply no longer work if European data protection were used as a basis. European companies are therefore well advised to wait and see whether a new agreement will be confirmed by the ECJ in a few years' time or whether it will be overturned again."
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