Want Privacy? Then Dump Facebook Account, EU Court Aide Is Told
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If you worry about your data being up for grabs by U.S. authorities, then dumping your Facebook Inc. account is a good start, an adviser to the European Union’s top court was told.
Yves Bot, who’s guiding the bloc’s highest court on the legality of a 15-year-old data transfer pact with the U.S., was given the tip at a hearing in Luxembourg Tuesday. Bot asked an EU lawyer if there was any means at all to stop his data from being “at the disposal” of U.S. authorities.