Write To Information - Technology, Media, Telecommunication, March 2022

A. TECHNOLOGY

1. EU, US agree ‘in principle' to new trans – Atlantic data agreement. 

The United States and the European Commission have committed to a new Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, which will foster trans – Atlantic data flows and address the concerns raised by the Court of Justice of the European Union when it struck down in 2020 the Commission's adequacy decision underlying the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield framework. This Framework will reestablish an important legal mechanism for transfers of EU personal data to the United States. The United States has committed to implement new safeguards to ensure that signals intelligence activities are necessary and proportionate in the pursuit of defined national security objectives, which will ensure the privacy of EU personal data and to create a new mechanism for EU individuals to seek redress if they believe they are unlawfully targeted by signals intelligence activities.