Facebook and other companies that transfer troves of personal data to the US were buoyed after a senior adviser to Europe’s top court validated the main legal mechanism they rely on. In a legal case that has been running for nearly seven years, Henrik Saugmandsgaard Oe, advocate-general at the European Court of Justice, said the main set of tools that enables hundreds of thousands of companies to transfer emails, pictures and other personal data outside the EU provides sufficient protection for consumers. “Standard contractual clauses (SCCs) for the transfer of personal data to processors established in third countries is valid,” he wrote in a decision published in Luxembourg on Thursday. Read More...
Facebook and other companies that transfer troves of personal data to the US were buoyed after a senior adviser to Europe’s top court validated the main legal mechanism they rely on. In a legal case that has been running for nearly seven years, Henrik Saugmandsgaard Oe, advocate-general at the European Court of Justice, said the main set of tools that enables hundreds of thousands of companies to transfer emails, pictures and other personal data outside the EU provides sufficient protection for consumers. “Standard contractual clauses (SCCs) for the transfer of personal data to processors established in third countries is valid,” he wrote in a decision published in Luxembourg on Thursday.
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