Billers, Ad Networks, Dating: Online US-EU Safe Harbor suspended
 

Billers, Ad Networks, Dating sites will be affected:

Online US-EU Safe Harbor is suspended. The legal framework, known as Safe Harbour, that allows 4,500 USA companies, from social media to airlines, to transfer data from the European Union to the United States, is invalid. Without Safe Harbour, such transfers are forbidden, or only allowed via other means, under EU laws that prohibit data-sharing with countries deemed to have lower privacy standards, incluiding United States (as Snowden suggested). Individual European countries can now set their own regulation for US companies' handling of citizens' data, and each EU country can choose to suspend the transfer of data to the US, forcing companies to host user data exclusively within the country. Each Eu country's national supervisory authorities, when dealing with a claim, must be able to examine, with complete independence, whether the transfer of a person’s data to a third country complies with the requirements laid down by the directive. Russia did this recently, introducing a new data law that demanded data on Russian citizens be stored within Russia.

Silicon Valley now 'illegal' in Europe: Why Schrems vs Facebook is such a biggie • The Register
EU Court Says Data-Transfer Pact With U.S. Violates Privacy - WSJ

The list of companies using the now killed US-EU Safe Harbor is there:

https://safeharbor.export.gov/list.aspx

I see there 2checkout, adbrite, adroll, coinbase, clickbooth, epoch.com LLC, friendfinder network, openx, .. really only the bigger ones, lots missing anyway, did not cared to apply for safe harbor. It looks like only USA companies are affected.. however let a company be based in Europe and host in USA (which is common) it would be silly if that's ok, as an export to USA servers is made anyway, and NSA can spy in own territory...

In list we got also "MasterCard International Incorporated", that is quite wide to all ecommerce, but I am more concerned at Epoch.com LLC for example.

Watch your money :helpme

well that sucks :disgust:disgust

Update: no one knows what's next. Probably a Safe Harbor 2.0 successor with stricter rules to be negotiated between EU and USA:

https://iapp.org/news/a/with-safe-ha...r-privacy-pros

In the meantime some companies are patenting methods they claim to solve the issue:

Anonos Technology Enables Internet Commerce And Data Use In Compliance With Growing International Restrictions - MarketWatch

Most of the real issues seems to be for Microsoft, Facebook etc.:

EU Safe Harbor ruling could have bearing on Microsoft email dispute | PCWorld

always the world falling LOL.........you really think mastercard/visa/airlines/social networks will allow any of this I'm laughing my ass off.

Well at the moment no one knows what's next. Maybe nothing falls, still, no one knows.
The FAQs being setup answer all except, what's next and what to do:

Frequently Asked Questions on the Judgment of the CJEU on the US/EU Safe Harbor Program | Global Compliance News

Some companies like box.com will open an EU subsidiary with EU hosted datacenter for EU customer's data to keep within EU, simply they no more export to USA, it should solve the issue:

Box to open European data centres after ECJ ruling on Safe Harbor - Business Insider

And all of that arose because Facebook demanded that it would not ever want to delete private user data.

eat my ass

i heard the countries had to do something in order to pull out, and that wasn't likely to happen