For the second time this decade, the Court of Justice of the European Union has struck a blow against the principal mechanisms for personal data transfer to the United States. In Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland, Maximillian Schrems, the Court declared the EU-US Privacy Shield invalid and placed significant hurdles to the process of transferring personal data from the European Union to the United States via the mechanism of Standard Contractual Clauses. Many have begun to suggest data localization as the solution to the problem of data transfer; that is, don’t transfer the data at all. I argue that data localization neither solves the problem of foreign surveillance, nor enhances personal privacy, while undermining other values embraced by the European Union.

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数据本地化是 Schrems II 的解决方案吗？

十年来，欧盟法院第二次打击了向美国传输个人数据的主要机制。在数据保护专员诉 Facebook Ireland, Maximillian Schrems 案中，法院宣布欧盟-美国隐私盾无效，并为通过标准合同条款机制将个人数据从欧盟转移到美国的过程设置了重大障碍。许多人已经开始建议将数据本地化作为数据传输问题的解决方案；也就是说，根本不传输数据。我认为数据本地化既不能解决外国监视问题，也不能增强个人隐私，同时破坏了欧盟所接受的其他价值观。