Snowdon is a dummy

ASIDE: You folk in Europe deal with floods often. You ought to pass laws against them also...so they will no longer be a bother.

Our courts have decided that our citizen's data needs a lot more protection than that on offer your side of the pond.

You should be used to people not taking any notice of you Frank. I know you think being American means you should be treated as an object of veneration, but that's not how it goes outside your borders. Our courts have decided that our citizen's data needs a lot more protection than that on offer your side of the pond. You being happy with it, is not a valid argument, your gun laws being a point in question.

Actually the EU-court has said that the law should be followed.

I think it to be a peculiar funny idea to include the behaviour of nature in a constitution or criminal law....

In today’s judgment, the Court of Justice holds that the existence of a Commission decision
finding that a third country ensures an adequate level of protection of the personal data transferred
cannot eliminate or even reduce the powers available to the national supervisory authorities
under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the directive. The Court
stresses in this regard the right, guaranteed by the Charter, to the protection of personal data and
the task with which the national supervisory authorities are entrusted under the Charter. [... ... ...]

I know that you have a different legal and court system, but you don't seem to have the slightest idea about a) what was ruled on b) what basis.

The Court of Justice (ECJ) is the highest court in the European Union in matters of European Union law.

With this ruling, the Court of Justice declares that the Commission’s US Safe Harbour Decision is invalid.

Quote:

In today’s judgment, the Court of Justice holds that the existence of a Commission decision
finding that a third country ensures an adequate level of protection of the personal data transferred
cannot eliminate or even reduce the powers available to the national supervisory authorities
under the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the directive. The Court
stresses in this regard the right, guaranteed by the Charter, to the protection of personal data and
the task with which the national supervisory authorities are entrusted under the Charter. [... ... ...]

If I would take the content of your above stupid reply serious, Frank, I should vote for abolishing our state and federal constitutional courts.

That, however, only could be done by a revolution.

[...]
The ECJ ruling became effective immediately and the European Commission said it would continue to work with the United States on a revamped data transfer deal to fill the void.

"In the light of the ruling, we will continue this work towards a new and safe framework for the transfer of personal data across the Atlantic," Commission Vice President Frans Timmermans told a news conference.

Without Safe Harbour, the United States loses its status in the EU as a country that provides "adequate protection" for personal data.

The EU has granted that status to only 11 countries worldwide. For transfers to any other country, such as Japan, companies have to draw up contracts establishing privacy protections between groups or seek approval from data protection authorities, something they will now be required to do for transfers to the United States.

"The EU's highest court has pulled the rug under the feet of thousands of companies that have been relying on Safe Harbour," said Monika Kuschewsky, special counsel at law firm Covington. "All these companies are now forced to find an alternative mechanism for their data transfers to the U.S."

The group of EU data protection authorities, known as the Article 29 Working Party (WP29), said it would hold discussions this week to "determine the consequences on transfers" of data and schedule an extraordinary meeting shortly.

It is too early to say whether companies left in the lurch by the annulment of Safe Harbour and without any alternatives will be given a grace period by data protection authorities, a spokeswoman for the WP29 said.

I'm sure the court will be interested in your input, you should tell them.

Either way Facebook aren't going to be able to dish up any more European data on a plate to our self appointed overlords.

You don't sound very indifferent, you sound well pissed off.

You sound like the estranged husband who upon receipt of a restraining order vows to get his wife anyway, complete with condescending language.

You really don't like the rule of law, so much for wanting 'fair' trials.