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EU Court Advocate General Deals Severe Blow to NSA Surveillance
Alfredo Lopez
A legal case, virtually unreported in the U.S., could very well unhinge a major component of this country's surveillance system. In any case, it certainly challenges it.
Yves Bot, he Advocate General of the European Court of Justice (the European Union's litigation arena) just published an “opinion” that the privacy and data sharing arrangements between the EU's 28 countries and the United States are “invalid”, must be revised and cannot now be used to regulate data transfer.
This is to surveillance what an earthquake would be to a city: it wouldn't halt surveillance but it would destroy one of its major components. While the EU court's 15 justices have yet to issue their ruling on the opinion, they seldom deviate very much from their AG's advice and, given that they published his opinion and circulated it to the media, it's a good bet they are going to approve something close to it. They'll make that ruling later this year.
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But the opinion alone is undoubtedly sending shudders through the halls of the NSA which gets all kinds of data from cooperating big-data companies (like Facebook and Google) and steals data from the ones that don't cooperate through a program called PRISM.
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Source: http://thiscantbehappening.net/eudecision
