Many in the EU are applauding the European Court of Justice (ECJ) decision on Safe Harbor because it has ended an agreement they feel aided the surveillance capabilities of the U.S. National Security Agency. But what if Safe Harbor’s invalidation ultimately hurts the privacy of Europeans? “Max Schrems may have won a victory in relation to Safe Harbor, but he has lost the war as, presumably, he has still consented to Facebook’s standard terms, which allow the continued transfer of his data to the U.S.,” writes Privacy Partnership’s Senior Partner Nicola Regan, CIPP/E. In this post for Privacy Perspectives, Regan argues why the absence of a Safe Harbor framework is actually bad for the privacy of European citizens.
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