Das LIBE, der Ausschluss des Europäischen Parlaments für bürgerliche Freiheiten, Justiz und Inneres (Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs), hat sich letzten Donnerstag mit 29 gegen 25 Stimmen (bei einer Enthaltung) dafür ausgesprochen, dem Privacy Shield, der Nachfolger des Safe-Harbor-Abkommen, die Angemessneheit abzusprechen (Medienmitteilung). Das Europäische Parlament wird dazu voraussichtlich im April entscheiden.
Der LIBE hat dabei folgende Bedenken festgehalten:
Among the remaining concerns that MEPs list are:
- the lack of specific rules on automated decision-making or the general right to object, and the lack of clear principles on how the Privacy Shield Principles apply to data processors,
- that “bulk surveillance” remain possible as regards national security and surveillance,
- that neither the Privacy Shield Principles nor letters from the US administration demonstrate the existence of effective judicial redress rights for individuals in the EU whose personal data are transferred to the US, and
- the Ombudsperson mechanism set up by the US Department of State is not sufficiently independent and is not vested with sufficient effective powers to carry out its duties.
MEPs also express alarm at recent revelations about surveillance activities conducted by a US electronic communications service provider at the request of the NSA and FBI as late as 2015, one year after the Presidential Policy Directive 28 was adopted, and insist that the Commission seeks full clarification from the US authorities.