Kenneth Propp, Return of the transatlantic privacy war

In a sweeping judgment on July 16, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) summarily demolished the fragile legal peace that has prevailed for the last four years on the subject of transatlantic data transfers. The ruling has major geopolitical implications not only for the EU’s commercial relations with the United States, but also for unrestricted European data flows to other countries with serious surveillance capacities, from the United Kingdom and Israel in the European “neighborhood” to authoritarian states farther afield such as Russia and China.

Kenneth Propp, Return of the transatlantic privacy war