Understanding Safe Harbor, Schrems v Facebook in less than 300 words
Safe Harbor is now defunct because the European Court of Justice (ECJ) found the following: (a) There is no general privacy law or other measures enacted in the USA that shows the USA offers "an adequate level of protection" for personal data relating to European data subjects; (b) Public law enforcement authorities which obtain personal data from organisations in Safe Harbor are not obliged to follow the Safe Harbor rules after disclosure; (c) Some USA law enforcement agencies can gain




