The European Commission today decided it is safe for personal data to be transferred from the European Union to US-based companies, handing a victory to firms like Facebook and Google despite protests from privacy advocates who worry about US government surveillance.

  • JavaTea
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    461 year ago

    Sooooo… the whole GDPR, including forcing USA companies to have servers in Europe, meant to protect Europeans from “laws” in the USA and other shady parts of the world…

    Oh wait… MONEYZZZZZ

  • @randomaccount43543
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    231 year ago

    Will this actually stand or will it be struck down in court like Privacy Shield?

    • Perry
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      21 year ago

      I guess it depends on how this “Data Protection Review Court” actually functions in practice. What is written on paper doesn’t seem to really matter much to US agencies so we’ll see how strong these safeguards actually are.

      Nevertheless, it’s good to see that the new agreement is finally in place at least. We’ve had this legal vacuum for years now and it was completely unsustainable in the long run. Sans a complete legal overhaul of the nonexistent privacy laws in the US (hah good luck with that), this is probably the best we could hope for now.

  • BustedPancake
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    171 year ago

    Money always wins in the end I see. Fucking sellout.

  • @[email protected]
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    101 year ago

    No! Don’t do this Europe. Keep data away from Facebook and Google. Protect Europe from them.

  • Marxine
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    21 year ago

    And then people don’t like to hear that at this point Europe are just a bunch of vassal estates to the USA. They could have fought against it and become more independent, but didn’t and now it’s too late.