In a ruling that has created legal uncertainty for thousands of companies, the European Union’s top court last month scrapped a trans-Atlantic data-transfer framework, known as Safe Harbor, which allowed firms to transfer Europeans’ personal data to U.S.-based servers. The European Court of Justice said that data is unprotected when it lands on American soil because U.S. intelligence services can get their hands on it.
The EU and U.S. have been racing to seal a deal on a new data-transfer framework that meets the court’s requirements but clarity for European officials over the extent to which U.S. national security services have access to Europeans’ data is still outstanding.
By Natalia Drozdiak and Stephen Fidler
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