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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 11 July 2023

Europe signs off on a new privacy pact that allows people’s data

to keep flowing to U.S.

By KELVIN CHAN to resolve core issues and
AP Business Writer vowed to challenge it to
LONDON (AP) — The Eu- the EU’s top court.
ropean Union signed off Schrems kicked off the le-
Monday on a new agree- gal saga by filing a com-
ment over the privacy of plaint about the handling
people’s personal informa- of his Facebook data af-
tion that gets pinged across ter whistleblower Edward
the Atlantic, aiming to ease Snowden’s revelations a
European concerns about decade ago about how
electronic spying by Ameri- the U.S. government eaves-
can intelligence agencies. dropped on people’s on-
The EU-U.S. Data Privacy line data and communica-
Framework has an ad- tions.
equate level of protection Calling the new agreement
for personal data, the EU’s a copy of the previous one,
executive commission said. Schrems said his Vienna-
That means it’s compara- based group, NOYB, was
ble to the 27-nation’s own readying a legal challenge
stringent data protection and expected the case to
standards, so companies be back in the European
can use it to move infor- Court of Justice by the end
mation from Europe to the of the year.
United States without add- A worker adjusts the U.S. and EU flags prior to the arrival of European Union foreign policy chief “Just announcing that
ing extra security. Josep Borrell and United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken during the EU-U.S. Energy Council something is ‘new’, ‘ro-
U.S. President Joe Biden Ministerial meeting at the European Council building in Brussels, on April 4, 2023. Associated Press bust’ or ‘effective’ does
signed an executive order not cut it before the Court
in October to implement earlier data transfer agree- Washington and Brussels prospect that U.S. tech of Justice,” Schrems said.
the deal after reaching a ments were thrown out. long have clashed over dif- firms might need to keep “We would need changes
preliminary agreement with “Personal data can now ferences between the EU’s European data that is used in U.S. surveillance law to
European Commission Pres- flow freely and safely from stringent data privacy rules for targeted ads out of the make this work and we
ident Ursula von der Leyen. the European Economic and the comparatively lax United States. The Euro- simply don’t have it.”
Washington and Brussels Area to the United States regime in the U.S., which pean privacy campaigner The framework, which takes
made an effort to resolve without any further condi- lacks a federal privacy law. who triggered legal chal- effect Tuesday, promises
their yearslong battle over tions or authorizations,” EU That created uncertainty lenges over the practice, strengthened safeguards
the safety of EU citizens’ Justice Commissioner Didi- for tech giants including however, dismissed the lat- against data collection
data that tech companies er Reynders said at a press Google and Facebook est deal. Max Schrems said abuses and provides mul-
store in the U.S. after two briefing in Brussels. parent Meta, raising the the new agreement failed tiple avenues for redress.q

Jews and Muslims come together at Srebrenica anniversary of

Europe’s only post-World War II genocide

By ELDAR EMRIC the future of both the Jew- Bosniak people, for us to in order to make sure that confronting Holocaust and
Associated Press ish people and the (Muslim) join forces in remembrance these type of atrocities not genocide denial.
SREBRENICA, Bosnia-Her- be allowed to occur in the The day-long conference,
zegovina (AP) — Jews and future,” Menachem Rosen- held in Srebrenica as part of
Muslims came together on saft, the general counsel of this year’s commemoration
Monday in Bosnia on the the World Jewish Congress, ceremonies, served as a fo-
eve of the 28th anniversary told The Associated Press. rum for the two communi-
of the Srebrenica massa- Founded in 1936, the World ties to talk about living with
cre, Europe’s only acknowl- Jewish Congress, or WJC, the pain of being the vic-
edged genocide since the is the leading internation- tims of the ultimate crime
Holocaust, to talk about al organization connect- of bigotry.“If we as Jews
ways of using their shared ing and protecting Jewish and as Muslims understand
pain to help rid the world of communities globally, in that we are also joined by
hate and bigotry. more than 100 countries. that pain, we can build on
More than 8,000 Bosniak Rosensaft was leading a that constructively to also
mainly Muslim men and delegation of Jewish schol- forge the world beyond suf-
boys were killed in July 1995 ars and young diplomats fering in which (genocide)
in Srebrenica, after Bosnian attending a conference becomes unimaginable,”
Serb troops took hold of the United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina Michael co-organized by the WJC said Rosensaft, who is the
eastern town. The carnage J. Murphy kneels next to the coffins containing remains of 30 and the Srebrenica Me- son of two Jewish survivors
has been declared a geno- newly identified victims of the Srebrenica Genocide in Potocari, morial Center on preserv- of Auschwitz and Bergen-
cide by two U.N. courts. Bosnia, Monday, July 10, 2023. Associated Press ing the collective memory Belsen Nazi concentration
“It is absolutely critical for of genocide victims and camps.q