European Court of Justice Strikes Down Safe Harbor Agreement

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ECJ Judgement on "Safe Harbour" has big implications for global companies

This isn’t final, but “usually followed” and has big implications for cross-border data storage that will affect large companies and could create a big barrier to mass surveillance. The opinion by Bot contains far-reaching recommendations that threaten to upend many current commercial practices and assumptions in the digital industry. If any EU country considers that transferring data to servers abroad undermines the protection of citizens, the advocate general’s finding said, it has th…