spies and internet giants are in the same business: surveillance. but we can stop them | john naughton /

The European court of justice ruling on ‘secure harbour’ at final enables us to start a conversation about proper control of personal data gathered by the likes of Facebook and GoogleOn Tuesday,the European court of justice, Europe’s supreme court, or 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 “secure harbour privacy principles” would be allowed to transfer personal data from the EU to the US.
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Source: theguardian.com