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Bulk collection still allowed under EU-US data 'shield'

01 March 2016

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"the Brussels executive warned it would not hesitate to suspend the self-certification pact should the current or next US administration fail to adhere to the new rules under the so-called EU-US Privacy Shield.

"We will suspend and we mean it," an EU official told reporters in Brussels. Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems, whose court case against Facebook helped shape Privacy Shield, said the latest agreement contained only minor improvements. He noted the US still had wide bulk collection data powers despite US reforms

This includes, according to the US government, "countering certain activities of foreign powers; counterterrorism; counter-proliferation; cybersecurity; detecting and countering threats to US or allied armed forces; and combating transnational criminal threats, including sanctions evasion."

See the story: Bulk collection still allowed under EU-US data 'shield' (euobserver, link)

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