Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith has published a blog post detailing the collapse of Safe Harbor and the need for a new privacy framework. The European Court of Justice’s Schrems “decision made clear what many have been advocating for some time: Legal rules that were written at the dawn of the personal computer are no longer adequate for an era with ubiquitous mobile devices connected to the cloud,” Smith writes. “If we’re going to ensure that data more broadly can move across the Atlantic on a sustainable basis, we need to put in place a new type of transatlantic agreement.” He likens the complexity of the modern digital environment to “the privacy version of a Rubik’s Cube,” adding, “Like the Rubik’s Cube, the solution is obvious only after it’s complete.”
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