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Jennifer Baker at The Register reports on the European Court of Justice's view of the data agreement between the EU and the US:
"The top advisor to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has said the current agreement between the EU and US is not worth the paper it’s written on .
Advocate General Yves Bot’s opinion on the so-called Facebook vs Europe case is not legally binding, but the court’s final ruling almost always follows his advice.
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Today’s opinion puts the whole safe harbour arrangement in jeopardy. Sixteen years ago, the EU and US set up the arrangement to allow personal data to be transferred to the US jurisdiction, despite it not have sufficient privacy laws to qualify for EU adequacy.
Following revelations by whistleblower in chief Edward Snowden, the European Parliament calling for the safe harbour programme to be suspended. However the EU executive, the European Commission, was reluctant to do so and instead pinned its hopes on renegotiating the terms of the agreement."
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