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Facebook accused of giving U.S. government access to EU data
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 10:34
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An influential privacy activist is pressing European Union officials to halt Facebook's data flows from Europe to the U.S.
Austrian Max Schrems on Tuesday sent a letter to the data protection agency in Ireland — where Facebook has its European headquarters — arguing that the authority should “suspend all data flows from 'Facebook Ireland Ltd' to 'Facebook Inc.'”
Schrems is the same activist that got the European courts to cancel a major U.S.-EU data transfer agreement months ago.
The European Court of Justice invalidated the long-standing “Safe Harbor” agreement — which allowed thousands of companies to legally transfer Europeans’ data to the U.S. — over concerns about U.S. surveillance programs …. http://thehill.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2015/12/facebook-accused-of-giving-us.html
