A German citizen is suing the European Commission for transferring of citizens’ data from of the Commission’s websites to the US – a data protection law originally created by the EC.
According to CyberNews, Europäische Gesellschaft für Datenschutz (EuGD) – a German organisation support consumers in the enforcement of legal claims over GDPR breaches – believes his right to the protection of personal data was violated.
The EuGD remarked, “When calling up the website and registering for an event offered there, the US cloud service in its function as web host automatically transferred personal information such as the IP address to a so-called unsafe third country without an adequate level of data protection, where it was also processed at least in part.”
EuGD said that the website for the Conference of the Future of Europe is hosted by AWS, which means anyone registering for the event transfers their IP address to the US. However, data transfers from the EU to the US were deemed illegal previously by the Court of Justice of the EU in the Schrems II ruling.
Thomas Bindl, the founder of EuGD, said the lawsuit against the Commission is a signal for data protection in Europe, showing that everyone must adhere to the rules.
He added, “Even if a ruling by the General court would not provide any direct guidelines for the jurisprudence in Germany, Spain or other countries, we see great significance in it. It would be a clear sign that everyone must adhere to the data protection requirements.”
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