What now?: Yves Bot's ruling that the Safe Harbour agreement did not do enough to protect EU citizens' private data when it reached the US leaves tech companies like Google, Facebook and the like in uncertain waters.
BRUSSELS: A deal easing the transfer of data between the United States and the EU is invalid, an adviser to the European Union's top court said, dealing a blow to a system used by Facebook, Google and thousands of other companies.
The Safe Harbour agreement did not do enough to protect EU citizen's private information when it reached the United States, Yves Bot, Advocate General at the European Court of Justice (ECJ), said.
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