Europe’s highest court on Thursday rejected a transatlantic knowledge movement agreement between the European Union and the United States, raising considerations about U.S. surveillance, in a move that can have an effect on how primary-generation corporations like Google, Amazon, Facebook and others operate on the continent.
The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Communities puts an end to the widely used EU-US system. Knowledge movement agreement known as ‘Privacy Shield’, ending as well as privileged for non-public knowledge of European users for U.S. generation companies.
Depending on how the resolution is applied, generation giants like Amazon, Facebook, Google and Apple may be forced to move their knowledge centers to Europe or cut their business with the region.
Privacy advocates in Europe have long opposed the “knowledge coverage shield” on the grounds that US surveillance activities make it ineligible to purchase knowledge for European users.
The Privacy Shield agreement was implemented through Washington and Brussels in 2016 to protect the non-public knowledge of Europeans sent to the United States for advertising purposes.
U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross said he was disappointed with the decision and noted that he was in contact with European leaders to restrict the “possible negative consequences of the $7.1 trillion transatlantic economic relationship,” the Wall Street Journal reported.
The resolution means that companies wishing to transfer the knowledge of European users abroad will have to ensure a coverage point equivalent to that of strict European knowledge coverage laws. This can be a challenge for corporations of the giant generation such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and others that can lately process European user knowledge in knowledge centers in the United States, where there are no similar privacy coverages. Disruption of those knowledge movements can have an effect on billions of dollars of commerce, adding cloud services and online advertising.
The case was brought to court through Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems, who has been seeking cases involving the management of the knowledge of European citizens since Edward Snowden revealed the NSA’s alleged NSA surveillance of foreign and U.S. citizens in 2013. Privacy Shield is a replacement for the past “Safe Harbor” agreement between the bloc and the United States, which was also removed by the court in 2015, following another Schrems dispute.
“One of the biggest problems is that we would like a basic reform of U.S. surveillance legislation if U.S. corporations still want decent access to the European market,” Schrems told Reuters.
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