Security News > 2022 > February > Privacy Shield: EU citizens might get right to challenge US access to their data

Officials from the EU and US are nearing a solution in long-running negotiations over transatlantic data sharing.

Previous legal arrangements for sharing data between the two jurisdictions, the so-called Privacy Shield, were struck down by the EU Court of Justice in what became known as the Schrems II ruling in 2020.

Even if the solution survives the negation, Bill Mew, privacy campaigner and CEO of Crisis Team, said there remained the issue of extraterritorial measures that are incompatible with the General Data Protection Regulation.

Any new treaty for data sharing between the EU and US would need to survive a period of scrutiny by the EU parliament and member states, Mew said.

The news follows yesterday's announcement that all data collected through the Transparency & Consent Framework must now be deleted by the 1,000-plus companies that pay international digital marketing and advertising association IAB Europe to use it.

The Belgian data protection authority [PDF] found that the "Consent solution" fails to properly request consent, and relies on a lawful basis that is not permissible because of the severe risk posed by the online advertising tracking under Article 5(1)a, and Article 6 of GDPR. .

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