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Javier del Cobo on 04 May 16"Last October the European Court of Justice (ECJ) declared the Safe Harbour data transfer agreement invalid, ending the 15 year pact that had governed data flows, especially flows of personal data across the Atlantic. The landmark decision came in the wake of revelations by Edward Snowdon about the US National Security Agency's PRISM spying operation. In the ensuing lawsuit between Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems and Facebook, the ECJ ruled the self-certified protections promised by Safe Harbour to be worthless. "