European Commission Adopts ‘Privacy Shield’ Agreement With US, Despite Criticism

[Lucian Armasu]

The European Commission formally adopted the new Privacy Shield agreement between the EU and the U.S. that allows American companies to transfer EU citizens' data to the U.S..

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[sh4dow83]

"a redress mechanism for EU citizens"

Wasn't there a German citizen who got tortured by some American agency/military/whatever and who found it difficult to get prosecution going even on THAT?
(I can't be arsed to look it up because I don't even want to refresh my memory of that...)

 

[mavikt]

So the UK was right!; what the deal with the EU? Obviously they don't want our best. By the citizen, for the citizen? NO, think again, LOL.

 

[stevenrix]

Soon the FREXIT hopefully i am tired of this EU and their absurd laws.

 

[tsnor]

Very glad you posted this article. (Nicely written too).

If Win10 takes a dump in EU and you send the dump to MS in the US then you (who sent the data) have violated EU laws. That is a bad thing. This ruling makes it possible to support software products in the US (and other countries) that are sold in the EU.