On 7th March 2022, President Biden officially signed an Executive Order describing the United States’ commitments to facilitate the transfer of data between the European Union and the US(Espinoza & Fedor, 2022). The agreement resulted in the opening of a new chapter in the transatlantic negations concerning the future data sharing between both occidental parties. The White House seeks to open new talks following the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) decision regarding the Privacy Shield(European Digital Rights, 2020). In July 2020, the CJEU judged the Privacy Shield, as inefficient to protect European residents’ private data(European Digital Rights, 2020). This major victory for Europeans guarantees the closure of their data from big corporations, such as Facebook. To prevent the misuse a of EU residents’ private data, the ruling demanded the necessity to introduce robust privacy legislation in the US and, as well as a rigorous monitoring of data protection measures in existence(European Digital Rights 2020).
The actual agreement would significantly limit the control of American security agencies to have access to European personal information (Espinoza & Fedor, 2022). To guarantee that any abuse will be punished, this agreement would give new power to American civil liberties protection agents. Their mission will be to investigate any violation of this agreement regarding people’s privacy. The agreement includes the possibility for any European citizens to report complaints if they believe they are surveilled unlawfully (Manancourt et al., 2022). People will allow filing lawsuits to challenge the proceeding of their data by American national agencies. This treaty is part of the Biden Administration’s policy of rapprochement. Gina Raimondo, US commerce Secretary, qualified this Executive Order as a wish to “restore trust and stability to transatlantic data flows” (Espinoza & Fedor, 2022). Therefore, this witness Biden wishes to reconnect the European Union and the United States as one technological entity.
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Manancourt, V., Scott, M., & Goujard, C. (2022, July 10). Biden signs executive order on EU-U.S. Data Privacy Agreement. POLITICO. Retrieved October 17, 2022, from https://www.politico.com/news/2022/10/07/biden-executive-order-eu-data-privacy-agreement-00060872
