Facebook Must Stop Sending Personal Data From Europe To The U.S., Says Activist

Max Schrems, who helped nullify the Safe Harbor agreement that protected data transfer, claims Facebook has not complied with the ruling.

U.S. tech companies, which have been facing increased scrutiny over data privacy in Europe, suffered another blow in October, when the Safe Harbor agreement that protected the transfer of user data from Europe to the U.S. was struck down. One of the architects of that ruling—Austrian privacy advocate Max Schrems, who filed the suit—has now flagged Facebook and asked that European data protection bodies halt the company's transfer of personal data.

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