Safe Harbor 2.0: US-Europe talks on privacy go down to the wire

All ecommerce sites will be interested in how this plays out

[tangor]

United States and European Commission officials have promised they are doing everything possible to reach agreement over transatlantic data-sharing before a critical deadline at the end of this week.

After the Safe Harbor agreement – put in place in 2000 – was struck down by Europe's highest court back in October due to NSA spying, officials have been scrambling to find a solution or risk causing enormous disruption to US-Europe commerce.

[theregister.co.uk...]

[bill]

They're trying to close the barn door after all the horses have fled. They should have done this years ago if that is what they wanted. Will CDNs now become illegal for European content providers? It seems to me the Internet has moved beyond this regional walled garden approach. Will they be asking for a China-style Great Firewall next?

[tangor]

My questions regarding this is how will commerce over the web work? There are valid concerns regarding data traps by intelligence agencies (on both sides of the pond) and the ones who might suffer are the webmasters and the users who can no longer do business.

Snowden opened a can of worms, and this is one of them.

[engine]

Quite often the bureaucrats and lawmakers are behind the wave, and this is a great example. They get involved and mess with a system. I don't have a problem with them investigating issues, however, they are quite often misinformed, or inadequately research the consequences of their proposed action. We could end up here with another mess and significant costs for those with data to store and protect, imho.