A survey conducted by Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems found most big technology companies were failing to comply with EU-imposed restrictions on transatlantic data transfers. In a poll of 33 mostly American companies, including Airbnb and Slack, Schrems’s digital rights group NOYB concluded that most companies either provided a “boilerplate answer” or answers that indicated they were not complying with the law. (The Logic, Reuters)

Talking point: The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in July that an existing data-sharing agreement between the U.S. and EU called Privacy Shield was invalid because of concerns around American surveillance. The Irish Data Protection Committee recently decided Facebook may have to stop transferring data from the EU to the U.S. as a result of the ruling, an outcome Facebook is suing to prevent. According to NOYB, firms including Airbnb, Netflix and WhatsApp did not respond to requests on whether they shared their EU data with U.S. authorities. Slack stated it did not “voluntarily” provide governments with data access, but that does not indicate if it does share data when compelled to under U.S. surveillance laws. “Data that is available in business software is especially relevant for US espionage. It is amazing that not even providers of business software can give clear answers on whether their data is accessed by the US government or not,” Schrems said in a release.