facebook challenge to irish watchdog data

The controversy stretches back to 2013, when former contractor Edward Snowden exposed the extent of spying by the U.S. The European Data Protection Board, the group in charge of all EU privacy watchdogs, said it is preparing more guidance and will create a special taskforce to help companies with their duty to ensure their data transfers are safe. “I don’t believe that there’s a silver bullet, but it would be helpful if the European regulators could provide practical guidance on how companies should go about analyzing the laws of non-EU countries.” “While some transfers may be difficult to justify in light of the concerns raised” by EU judges, “all EU-US data transfers should not be tarred with the same brush,” said Wim Nauwelaerts, a data protection lawyer with Alston & Bird in Brussels. Still, the judges put the onus on companies such as Facebook to make sure their data transfers are in line with the bloc’s strict data protection rules and tasked regulators with assessing the risks of data transfers on a case by case basis. must be “essentially equivalent” to that in the 27-nation bloc, the court said. The protection of EU citizens’ data in the U.S. The EU court raised the bar to a level that make EU-U.S. The Irish authority already in July said that “in practice, the application of the SCCs transfer mechanism to transfers of personal data to the United States is now questionable.” The EU is still grappling with the ramifications of the EU Court of Justice ruling, because while it didn’t issue an outright ban on the more widely used contract-based system, doubts about American data protection have made this a shaky alternative too. The Irish regulator declined to comment on the lawsuit. The legal clash follows a shock decision in July by the European Union’s top court to topple the so-called Privacy Shield over fears EU citizens’ data isn’t safe once shipped to the U.S.

While the order isn’t final and will still need the backing of other EU data watchdogs, it could also put in doubt data transfers with the same tool by other tech firms under the Irish authority’s purview.

Facebook challenge to irish watchdog data