On Tuesday, the European court of justice, Europe’s supreme court, lobbed a grenade into the cosy, quasi-monopolistic world of the giant American internet companies.It did so by declaring invalid a decision made by the European commission in 2000 that US companies complying with its “safe harbour privacy principles” would be allowed to transfer personal data from the EU to the US.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/11/spies-internet-giants-surveillance-safe-harbour-ruling-edward-snowden
Spies and internet giants are in the same business: surveillance. But we can stop them
On Tuesday, the European court of justice, Europe’s supreme court, lobbed a grenade into the cosy, quasi-monopolistic world of the giant American internet companies.