EU-US Data Privacy Deal Won’t Survive in Court, Schrems Says

Max Schrems, the European privacy advocate whose legal challenges brought down the last two EU-US agreements on cross-border data transfers, is readying his challenge to the newest framework.

The US and EU last year finalized the Data Privacy Framework, which describes the legal basis for transferring personal data between the jurisdictions. The framework replaces the EU-US Safe Harbor and the Privacy Shield, both of which were torn up after decisions by the EU’s highest court in response to challenges from Schrems.

Those cases resulted in a 2015 ruling at the Court of Justice of the European Union known as ...