This privacy activist has just won an enormous victory against U.S. surveillance. Here’s how. - The Washington Post
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Max Schrems
The new court decision has fundamental consequences. It not only invalidates Safe Harbor, but makes it clear that any new arrangement has to be fundamentally different from the old one. It not only has to protect European citizens better against U.S. e-commerce firms, but has to protect them against the U.S. state.
Here’s how the Facebook case has just transformed the surveillance debate - The Washington Post
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The Safe Harbor was (as described in earlier research on it) a rickety institution; formally, it was not even an agreement between the E.U. and United States, but an exchange of letters. The European Court of Justice will clearly not accept a deal with shaky foundations; it wants law.