Europe's top court will on Thursday rule on the legality of tools companies use to transfer Europeans' data around the world, in the latest clash between Facebook and Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems.
BRUSSELS - Europe’s top court will on Thursday rule on the legality of tools companies use to transfer Europeans’ data around the world, in the latest clash between Facebook and Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems.
“The Court could upend one, two or all global data transfer mechanisms, sending tens of thousands of companies scrambling, or could validate the existing legal order, providing companies around the world the legal certainty they’ve been seeking for decades,” Caitlin Fennessy, research director at the International Association of Privacy Professionals , said.
It took the European Commission, the EU executive, and the United States more than a year to agree an alternative. Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden’s revelations in 2013 of mass U.S. surveillance increased EU concerns about data transfers.
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