Level3 and BitTorrent broke privacyverdrag between the EU and USA

Twelve U.s. companies, including the large backbone provider Level3, and BitTorrent, have a privacyverdrag between the European Union and the United States violated. The companies said that they were at the convention were, but their certification had expired.

The treaty that the twelve companies are broke, the US-EU Safe Harbor Framework, is intended to give U.s. companies the data of European internet users to be processed. On the whole, the American law has a much lower protection of privacy than the European, but with the convention, U.s. companies data of Europeans according to European law process.

To comply with the treaty, which is voluntary, companies should each year re-register. The twelve companies, including the large backbone provider Level3 and the company of the creator of BitTorrent, did that, not while they are on their website indicated that they certified were in accordance with the treaty, writes the U.s. Federal Trade Commission. That does not mean that the companies the privacy of citizens in practice have been violated, stressed the FTC.

The twelve companies, including two American football clubs, an app-maker and a company that dna tests offer to have a settlement with the FTC affected, which must still be approved. In addition promise to the companies not re-misleading information on any privacy programs. Moreover, Level3 also the company that provides the NSA access to unencrypted glasvezeltaps would have given, including taps on the internal networks of Google and Yahoo.