EU’s Top Court Restricts Personal-Data Transfers to U.S., Citing Surveillance Concerns

1000’s of companies will face constraints on storing information about European Union inhabitants on U.S. servers, right after the bloc’s leading courtroom ruled that this kind of transfers uncovered Europeans to American govt surveillance with out “actionable rights” to challenge it.

The shock ruling Thursday from the European Courtroom of Justice, which invalidates a greatly applied EU-U.S. data-transfer arrangement identified as Privateness Shield, is a victory for privateness activists who have extensive claimed that the U.S.’s surveillance methods should really make…