Why don’t Europeans want their data routed to the US by google or facebook? Europe has high data security protocols than the US.
Can’t the companies protect the European information? Sure, Tim Cook Apple has said it will lead in data privacy, but the Patriot Act and other laws allow US to snoop on data. So, that European data gets siphoned up by the U.S. government.
So, what? Americans have learned to live with it? Remember the international kerfuffle that occured when it was learned that the US was spying on its German allies? Europeans place a higher value on data security.
What did the European Court do? 2 things:
- it invalidated an internatioanl safe harbor agreemnt for the transfer of the data
- It said that each EU country should have have oversight over how companies collect and use online information of their countries’ citizens.
NYTimes | Data Transfer Pact Between U.S. and Europe Is Ruled Invalid