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European Parliament’s Socialists call for suspension of Safe Harbor agreement with US

( March 24, 2015, 16:35 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The European Parliament’s Socialists and Democrats group said that an EU agreement that allows personal data to be transferred between the European Union and the US should be suspended. The call comes as the European Court of Justice is considering whether the EU’s Safe Harbor agreement with the US can protect European consumers from surveillance by US authorities.The European Court of Justice (ECJ) in Luxembourg will today start assessing a lawsuit from Austrian data-protection activist Max Schrems against Facebook. The case questions how far European subsidiaries of non-European internet giants such as Facebook have to comply with European fundamental-rights standards. This case follows two landmark rulings last year on data retention and against the search engine Google on the 'right to be forgotten'....

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