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EU tech companies concerned about court opinion in Irish privacy case

( September 23, 2015, 10:45 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Industry group DigitalEurope says it is concerned about the potential disruption to international data flows if Europe’s highest court follows a nonbinding legal opinion in a case referred from the Irish High Court. Advocate General Yves Bot said that Ireland’s data-protection commissioner had a right to prevent Facebook from transferring the personal data of EU subscribers to servers in the US, despite a European Commission finding that US privacy safeguards are adequate. The outcome of the case could have a knock-on effect on other legal instruments underpinning the transfer of personal data outside the bloc, the technology sector association says....

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