Hello. Companies that move data from Europe to the U.S. have new work to do. A surprising decision by Europe’s top court last week invalidated the Privacy Shield deal that governed those transfers. As WSJ Pro’s Catherine Stupp writes in her latest Brussels Report, companies now have to figure out their next move and for some, it will entail reassessing their relationships with U.S. cloud giants.
Other news: Dutch politician was victim of the cyberattack on
Twitter
; Chinese drone app sucks up phone data; and how a quantum internet could safeguard information.
And: Your Weekend Reading section awaits.
Brussels Report: Privacy Regulators Worry About Volume of New Work From EU Data Ruling
By Catherine Stupp
A shock ruling from the European Union’s top court last week complicates how companies transfer data outside of the bloc. It also has created new headaches for the people tasked with ensuring the rules are followed.
The European Court of Justice said last week that companies can only rely on contractual clauses to transfer data outside the EU if they can guarantee that data won’t be subject to government surveillance at its destination. The court also invalidated a data-transfer agreement with the U.S. known as the Privacy Shield.
Some European regulators already have rushed to recommend that companies change how they do business. The authority in Berlin said last Friday businesses should immediately stop using U.S. cloud computing providers.
Companies that report to European privacy regulators have little choice but to begin examining their arrangements.
Osram Licht
AG
will review its cloud contracts with
Amazon.com
Inc.
and
Microsoft
Corp.
to make sure they can continue moving data to the U.S., said Barbara Schmitz, head of data privacy at the German lighting manufacturer.
Read the full analysis.
More Cyber News
Dutch politician targeted in Twitter hack. Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders said in an email to The Wall Street Journal that he was a victim of the attack and that Twitter had notified him that his private messages were accessed. He said the incident was “a total breach of confidence and totally unacceptable in many ways” and that he hoped people who reached out to him over the years through Twitter weren’t now in danger. Twitter said this week that 36 users had their direct messages accessed in a high-profile hacking attack last week.
Chinese drone app collects large amounts of data, researchers say. An app that controls consumer drones from China’s SZ DJI Technology Co. gathers data from users’ phones, including technical information, without notification, the New York Times reports. The app, DJI GO 4 in the Google Play store, also updates itself without review by Google, according to cybersecurity firms Synacktiv and Grimm. Forced updates stop users who try to avoid government controls on drones, a DJI spokesman said. Google said it is look into the matter.
Energy Department says quantum internet provides strong security. A group led by the U.S. Department of Energy and the University of Chicago plans to develop a nationwide quantum internet that could securely transmit sensitive information related to national security and financial services, WSJ’s CIO Journal reports.
What’s quantum internet, you ask? Today’s internet can send information by encoding it in photons, or particles of light, that run along fiber-optic cables underground, and over wireless communication technologies and satellites. In the quantum internet, the photons would be “entangled,” a quantum mechanical effect Albert Einstein referred to as “spooky action at a distance.” Entangled photons are linked despite being separated by vast distances. If a hacker intercepted information encoded in entangled photons, the properties of the particles of light would be disturbed, and the entanglement broken. An email, for example, would appear scrambled to the hacker and to the recipient.
Quantum
internet could be ready in a decade.
Weekend Reading
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Ransomware Attack on Freddie Mac Vendor Highlights Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
U.S. Accuses Two Hackers of Stealing Secrets From American Firms for China
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