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EU May Forbid the Transfer of Personal Data To the US
An anonymous reader writes: As the Snowden revelations have shown, personal data stored in the United States of America is not protected from the US government, be it through warrantless eavesdropping or national security letters. In light of this, the general attorney for the Court of Justice of the European Union has just issued an opinion requiring the US to be removed from the list of "safe harbors", where the transfer of personal data of European citizens is permitted. If the court follows his opinion, the change will have deep impact in the operations of large transnational Internet companies, between a US government that wants to keep on spying, and European authorities that will punish them if they let it happen.
In that case, the EU is violating the treaty. Claims brought against US organizations are supposed to be heard in the US. This ruling was made in the EU, which is actually in violation of the treaty because it's a claim against a US organization.