7 Amendments of Josef WEIDENHOLZER related to 2016/3018(RSP)
Amendment 5 #
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Is aware that the EU-US Privacy Shield rests solely on PPD-28, which was issued by the President and can also be repealed by any future President without Congress’s consent;
Amendment 8 #
Paragraph 2
2. Acknowledges that the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield contains significant improvements compared to the former EU- U.S. Safe Harbour and that U.S. organisations self- certifying adherence to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield will have to comply with higher data protection standards than under Safe Harbour;
Amendment 10 #
Paragraph 3
3. Takes note that on 6 December 2016, 1170 U.S. organisations have joined the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield; regrets that the Privacy Shield is based solely on voluntary self-certification and therefore applies only to US organisations which have voluntarily signed up to it, which means that many companies are not covered by the scheme;
Amendment 18 #
Paragraph 6
6. ADoubts whether the U.S. Department of Commerce is the right body to monitor compliance with data protection provisions, but acknowledges the clear commitment of the U.S. Department of Commerce to closely monitor the compliance by U.S. organisations of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield principles and their intention to take enforcement actions against entities failing to comply; calls for a written report on possible enforcement actions in the event of failure to comply;
Amendment 31 #
Paragraph 9
9. Stresses that, as regards national security and surveillance, notwithstanding the clarifications brought by the Director of National Intelligence Office in the letters attached to the Privacy Shield framework, “bulk surveillance”, despite the different terminology used by the U.S. authorities, remains possible; regrets the lack of a uniform definition of the concept of bulk surveillance and the adoption of the American terminology, and therefore calls for a uniform definition of bulk surveillance linked to the European understanding of the term, where evaluation is not made dependent on selection; stresses that any kind of mass surveillance is in breach of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights;
Amendment 47 #
Paragraph 11
11. Recalls its Resolution of 26 May 2016 that the Ombudsperson mechanism set up by the U.S. Department of State is not sufficiently independent and is not vested with sufficient effective powers to carry on its duties and provide effective redress to EU individuals; is generally concerned that an individual affected by a breach of the rules can apply only for information and for the data to be deleted and/or for a stop to further processing, but has no right to compensation;
Amendment 55 #
Paragraph 14
14. Calls on the Commission to take all the necessary measures to ensure that the Privacy Shield will fully comply with Regulation (EU) 2016/679, to be applied as from 16 May 2018, and with the Charter of Fundamental Rights;