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The End for Privacy Shield?

As we’ve warned since its inception, the EU – US Privacy Shield agreement looks like it’s going to collapse shortly. Trump’s admin isn’t about to concede anything to the EU – (that privilege is reserved for NK, apparently ?):

http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20180611IPR05527/eu-us-privacy-shield-data-exchange-deal-us-must-comply-by-1-september-say-meps

That’s the only the first of many assaults on it; Max Schrems’ case is coming up soon as well, and it’s likely to be similarly fatal.

Time to pull your data out of the US, probably out of US-owned hosting within the EU as well, if you’re feeling paranoid…