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

Legal Business
Legal Business · 6 October 2015 · 3 min read
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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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