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"The Paciotti report on the ‘safe harbour’ agreement has my approval, although it will not solve the problems attending transatlantic data protection for the following reasons:
It will still be possible, even with the ‘safe harbour’ agreement in place, to find ways of getting round it and selling clients’ data to third parties without having to obtain the client’s consent.
Even if the agreement succeeds in defining vague data protection standards, it is not clear precisely what action will be taken when companies violate these standards. Will it be possible to take them to court? Will they have to pay compensation?
The question as to how far EU citizens will actually be able to assert the rights laid down for their benefit in the ‘safe harbour’ agreement remains unanswered, particularly as the court of jurisdiction for the US companies is in the USA and so they have a natural advantage over individual EU citizens.
That said, I still subscribe to the report because, as matters stand, there are no provisions whatsoever for guaranteeing EU data protection standards in the exchange of data with other continents. The ‘safe harbour’ scheme does at least represent an attempt to guarantee data protection beyond EU borders."@en1
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