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Cybersecurity & Standards, European Policy, Government Surveillance

With Safe Harbor gone, the hard work on data transfers starts now

CIO: 

Tuesday’s ruling that struck down the most common way to legally transfer data between Europe and the U.S. didn’t turn multinational companies into outlaws immediately, but they’d better start working on alternatives now.

That’s what lawyers steeped in the arcane law of international data handling said in the aftermath of the decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union.

However much Tuesday’s ruling may affect enterprises, the U.S. and EU haven’t tackled the greatest threat to data privacy, which is government surveillance, said Nuala O’Connor, president and CEO of the Center for Democracy & Technology. “I don’t think anybody’s privacy is any better today than it was yesterday,” she said.

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