European Union justice ministers agree on data protection directive

In light of the significance of this judgment, the Commissioner will now “immediately engage with colleagues in other national supervisory authorities across Europe to determine how the judgment can be implemented in practice, quickly and effectively, particularly insofar as it impacts on EU/US data transfers”.

The Data Protection Police Directive is a key contribution to the objectives set out in the EU’s Agenda on Security.

Ministers in the European Commission’s Justice Council have sealed an overall agreement on the EU’s Data Protection Directive for the police and criminal justice sector.

The new rules will apply to both domestic processing and cross-border transfers of personal data.

“Last year, we doubled resources to the Data Protection Commissioner”, Mr Murphy said. It left a few 4,400 US companies that could previously move data under Safe Harbor anxious about what kind of enforcement actions they might face from European Union privacy regulators.

Supervision is ensured by independent national data protection authorities and effective judicial remedies must be provided.

Dixon’s decision to attend the Art. 29 meeting in person isn’t surprising, given the outsized role her privacy office plays in overseeing data transfers by giant technology multinationals with European headquarters in Ireland, such as Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Google Inc. and Facebook Inc.

“The message is clear – that mass surveillance is not possible and against fundamental rights in Europe”, said Schrems after the ruling.

The second point is the Safe Harbor agreement is now invalid.

Omer Tene, vice president of research and education at the global Association of Privacy, told SCMagazine.com that the Safe Harbour decision would mainly affect CISA’s Judicial redress Act, which would provide citizens of major US allies a course of redress regarding information shared with USA law enforcement.

“For months, we have been trying to pass important, balanced legislation to help companies get the information they need to stop losses like this”, Feinstein said in a statement Friday about the T-Mobile/Experian hack.

The Article 29 Working Party, an advisory group to the European Commission that is made up of representatives from the data protection authorities of the 28 EU member states, is slated to meet in Brussels October. 15 to consider offering official guidance to companies reeling from the sudden demise of the program. Snowden tweeted Schrems, “You’ve changed the world for the better”.