The government body of the European Union, the European Commission, is facing a lawsuit over an alleged data breach related to transferring personal data from Europe to the U.S.
The lawsuit—now admitted by the General Court of the European Union (EGC)—alleges the use of Amazon Web Services, the use of Facebook login on a Commission website, and an incomplete and omitted disclosure to the EU citizens.
“It seems quite unfair that businesses in the EU have to work with Schrems II and figure out how to be compliant, while the European Commission doesn’t apply the rules on their own websites,” Thomas Bindl, founder of Europäische Gesellschaft für Datenschutz (EuGD) and the person behind the lawsuit told Adweek.
Europe is setting global privacy standards with tightening regulations, some applicable to both EU and non-EU countries.
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