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This is good, and a direct result of the Snowden revelations - without those, the US would still considered to be a safe harbor for your data. I'm hopeful that

This is good, and a direct result of the Snowden revelations - without those, the US would still considered to be a safe harbor for your data. I'm hopeful that this will create the kick that the US needed, now that actual income (and high income, at that) is becoming threatened by the NSA. Of course this isn't the end to their data theft. They're likely to get the data from their Five Eyes European friends instead, but still - a good victory. Amazing to see what one determined person can do!

rurban 11y ago
Sure. The next step would be to demand EU nations which violate the safe harbor EU rules be either thrown out of the EU (GB, but probably also Neitherlands, Sweden and Denmark), or fix their privacy laws. It cannot be that the GHCQ acts on behalf of the US on EU data and allows easy circumvention of basic privacy principles.
- pjc50 11y ago
  Sadly, the data protection laws have always had "national security" exemptions.
  - lsaferite 11y ago
    Which is funny since US "national security" is what prompted the ECJ to invalidate the safe harbor provision.
    - tormeh 11y ago
      Obviously, data protection laws don't have exceptions for other countries' national security.
- M2Ys4U 11y ago
  >The next step would be to demand EU nations which violate the safe harbor EU rules be either thrown out of the EU There is no safe habor inside the EU because EU privacy law already applies there and the regular legal mechanisms apply.