, Columnist
Another Internet Border Has Just Gone Up
Europe blocked the highway for sending data from the region to the U.S. Conduits remain, but it’ll be much easier for tech behemoths to adapt than small start-ups.
The data stays here.
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The balkanization of the internet continues.
The European Union’s top court called a halt on Thursday to the main way companies transfer data across the Atlantic. The Privacy Shield, as it is known, allows for data from Europe to remain subject to the region’s data privacy laws when shifted to the U.S. However, the European Court of Justice ruled that U.S. law made such data vulnerable to intelligence snooping, breaching privacy regulations.