EU Legal Opinion on Facebook Case Spells Trouble For Data Transfers

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U.S. companies face potential disruptions in how they handle European users’ information, after an adviser to the EU’s top court argued that privacy regulators should stop data transfers to countries that force companies to break the bloc’s privacy laws.

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Author: Samschechner

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