Amazon's Pitch to Europe: Your Data Is Safe From American Spies
- In surprise, European court ruling boosts U.S. tech industry
- Amazon, Microsoft and VMWare are expanding EU data centers
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Bad news for American tech.
That was the reaction from many industry watchers in October when Europe’s highest court -- reacting in part to revelations that U.S. intelligence services were vacuuming up the private information of millions of Europeans -- struck down a longstanding agreement that this data could be beamed to the U.S. without seeking citizens’ explicit consent.