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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11414

21 October 2015
SECTORAL POLICIES / (ae) jha
Safe Harbor - Irish authority suspends personal data transfer to USA

Brussels, 20/10/2015 (Agence Europe) - On Tuesday 20 October, Ireland's national personal data protection authority agreed to investigate the complaint of Austrian student Max Schrems, suspending de facto the transfer of personal data to the giant social networking website Facebook and to the USA where, Schrems fears, the intelligence agencies could have access to his data.

It is this refusal to investigate that had led to the case being taken to the Court of Justice of the European Union...

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