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Austrian law student’s case against Facebook results in landmark ECJ decision to scrap safe harbour regime

Austrian law student’s case against Facebook results in landmark ECJ decision to scrap safe harbour regime
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6 October 2015
Cyber securityLegal affairs

An Austrian law student has won a legal challenge over the US safe harbour scheme, in a decision which will impact some 4,000 US companies which transferred personal information across the Atlantic.

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