Yes, this has being going on for quite a while. There's some allusion to those problems in Microsoft's various blog posts that I have read. It will be interesting to see how this pans out. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is not going to help data privacy - in my opinion, it will be a major obstacle to the necessary safeguards. Ian Thomas Albert Park, Victoria
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Thomas Koster Sent: Monday, October 26, 2015 11:00 AM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Privacy - Microsoft Chief Legal Officer On 24 October 2015 at 17:49, ILT <[email protected]> wrote: > Two posts that I have found interesting – > > http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/10/20/the-collapse-of-the-us-eu-safe-harbor-solving-the-new-privacy-rubiks-cube/ > > http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/10/06/a-message-to-our-customers-about-eu-us-safe-harbor/ The most interesting part is why the ECJ ruled the safe harbour provisions invalid in the first place: http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2015-10/cp150117en.pdf Basically, the ECJ had enough of US companies blatantly violating the conditions. The last straw was apparently the inability of the Irish High Court to decide a case regarding Facebook giving the US public authorities (e.g. NSA) unrestricted access to an Austrian citizen's personal data. -- Thomas Koster
