WSJ: Surprise ruling is a victory for privacy activists This wasn't a surprise at all. It was very predictable from the beginning for one simple reason: the US

WSJ: Surprise ruling is a victory for privacy activists This wasn't a surprise at all. It was very predictable from the beginning for one simple reason: the US doesn't have strong privacy laws and the US government's surveillance apparatus doesn't account for whatever privacy laws exist either. All the gag orders (up to half of all total order requests according to Microsoft 2 years ago), all the tapping of internet cables and "partnerships" with the carriers, all the "fusion centers" with all agencies getting people's data, and so on. Oh, and best of all, the Privacy Shield said that it was up to the US DOJ to ensure US companies followed EU law. What a joke. The EU Charter of Fundamental rights prohibits data from being stored in countries that don't provide equivalent privacy protections as in the EU. If you follow this logic, it's obvious Privacy Shield was bound to fail. An article from 2018: https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/07/26/us-surveillance-makes-privacy-shield-invalid https://www.hrw.org/news/2017/07/26/us-surveillance-makes-pr...