Google improves EU-compliant data protection
The Californian search engine company wants to enable companies in Europe to deal with cloud components in a legally secure manner. Standard clauses are now to be created for this purpose.
Google wants to make it easier for the EU to handle its cloud components such as Gmail and online services via the Meet conference system in accordance with the law. Google will make standard contractual clauses available for cloud services, a data protection lawyer for the company explained on Monday at the privacy conference of the IT association Bitkom. This would apply with immediate effect.
With regard to the "Privacy Shield", all available instruments are to be used to "make the best of the existing legal uncertainty", the spokesman said. With their "Schrems II decision," the Luxembourg judges once again found that U.S. laws such as the Cloud Act or the Foreign Intelligence Act (FISA) still allow mass surveillance by security agencies such as the NSA or the FBI.
Source: Heise
