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European Union's top court finds data vulnerable to U.S. spying

The ruling invalidated an E.U.-U.S. data privacy shield for not adequately protecting against U.S. intelligence snooping.

Luxembourg's Court of Justice of the European Union
Luxembourg's Court of Justice of the European Union (AN/Valeria Fernández Astaburuaga)

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the bloc's top court, invalidated a 2016 decision by the European Commission that established an E.U.-U.S. data privacy shield.

The court found on Thursday that the E.U.-U.S. Privacy Shield did not offer sufficiently robust protections against potential snooping by U.S. intelligence services.

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