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(19 Dec 2019) EU regulators must block tech companies from transferring data outside the bloc in cases in which privacy rules are broken, an advisor to the European Union’s top court said Thursday.
The advise comes as part of a long legal case involving an Austrian privacy campaigner and Facebook.
Activist Max Schrems had argued that so-called “standard contractual clauses” mean that authorities in individual EU countries can, under the law, halt data transfers in specific cases if data privacy is violated.
The European Court of Justice’s Advocate General Henrik Saugmandsgaard Oe agreed, saying in a preliminary opinion that under the clauses, companies and regulators have an obligation to suspend or prohibit transfers if there's a conflict with the law in a third country such as the U.S.
The advocate general's opinion is not binding but may influence the court's judges when they issue their final ruling.
The case has threatened far-reaching implications for social media companies that move large amounts of data via the internet.
Facebook's European subsidiary regularly does so.

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