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Thank you, Max Schrems!

... we had already published an article titled three years ago, after he had successively “processed away” one “data protection agreement” (Safe Harbour, Privacy Shield) of the EU with the U.S. - one after another. This is because all of these agreements had been concluded under massive pressure from the U.S. and contained various backdoors for the country’s (police and intelligence) services.

Now, the Taz reports that Austrian data protection activist Max Schrems wants to prevent European companies from continuing to store data in U.S. clouds and having it processed by U.S. firms. Once again, he will have to file a lawsuit before the General Court of the European Union (GCEU), where he has already been successful on several occasions. The basis for the lawsuit is always the same: the companies’ false assumption that “equivalent” data protection exists in the EU and the U.S. No EU citizen has the ability to successfully take action against data protection violations by U.S. authorities.

Such an “assumption” is no longer tenable following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling at the end of June. The Supreme Court ruled that there can be no independent U.S. agency with sovereign authority. All agencies must be controlled by the U.S. President. In the ruling, this subordination referred to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), but it applies equally to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a U.S. agency critical to data protection.

Therefore, the European Commission must terminate the currently valid DPF Agreement. If it does not do so on its own, he will sue it before the General Court of the European Union for inaction.