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Doubtless folks will have seen this important ECJ decision already,
but just in case I take the liberty of forwarding links to
materials. Certainly will have an impact. Full decision link is in
the press release.<br>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size:
14pt; word-wrap: break-word;">Very, very good privacy
decision from Europe's highest court.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size:
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National privacy agencies retain authority to enforce EU
fundamental rights</p>
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14pt; word-wrap: break-word; padding-left: 30px;">(2) The
Safe Harbor arrangement in invalid for multiple reasons.</p>
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<p style="margin:0;padding:0;font-family: arial; font-size:
14pt; word-wrap: break-word;">The practical impact will be
to dramatically increase pressure on the US to update its
privacy laws (ECPA, Privacy Act, FTC / DPA, FISA, etc).</p>
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website:</p>
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href="http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2015-10/cp150117en.pdf">http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2015-10/cp150117en.pdf</a></p>
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30px;">The Court of Justice declares that the
Commission’s US Safe Harbour Decision is invalid.
Whilst the Court of Justice alone has jurisdiction to
declare an EU act invalid, where a claim is lodged
with the national supervisory authorities they may,
even where the Commission has adopted a decision
finding that a third country affords an adequate level
of protection of personal data, examine whether the
transfer of a person’s data to the third country
complies with the requirements of the EU legislation
on the protection of that data and, in the same way as
the person concerned, bring the matter before the
national courts, in order that the national courts
make a reference for a preliminary ruling for the
purpose of examination of that decision’s validity</p>
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