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JUDGES at the European Court of Justice tore up a “safe harbour” deal yesterday that let technology companies store users’ data in the United States.
The European Union’s top court struck down the agreement following a complaint from an Austrian citizen against Facebook’s subsidiary in Ireland.
Because citizens of EU member states do not have a say on the potentially insecure conditions under which their details are kept in the US, the five-judge panel said that the unrestricted transfer of information should be stopped.
Cypriot lawyer and former central committee member of the Progressive Working People’s Party (Akel) TOUMAZOS TSIELEPIS discusses the case for expelling the British military from Cyprus
The biggest strike in global history is a template for our future. The silence tells you all you need to know, writes CLAUDIA WEBBE
Politicians who continue to welcome contracts with US companies without considering the risks and consequences of total dependency in the years to come are undermining the raison d’etre of the NHS, argues Dr JOHN PUNTIS
It is only trade union power at work that will materially improve the lot of working people as a class but without sector-wide collective bargaining and a right to take sympathetic strike action, we are hamstrung in the fight to tilt back the balance of power, argues ADRIAN WEIR