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White House 'deeply disappointed' by Europe outlawing Silicon Valley
The US government is "deeply disappointed" by the European Court of Justice's decision to effectively kill the long-standing "safe harbor" agreement covering the flow of people's personal data across the Atlantic. Under European law, personal information on EU citizens must stay within the Continent for privacy reasons. To allow American businesses to access Europeans' information across The Pond, the US had a "safe harbor" pact with the EU that promised to keep people's data secure.
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This is clearly the NSA scandals coming back to bite the U.S. in the ass. Ultimately, it's the U.S. Government who screwed the tech companies on this one.
I'm impressed by Europe on issues like this. I know this is creating a huge headache for tech companies, but they're taking a stand for the right to privacy of the citizens of Europe.
And apparently they thought they could just keep at it and there wold be no repercussions...Now the chickens are coming home to roost.
My heart truly bleeds for you, America. How will technology companies ever get free reign to do what they like now?
;_;