Microsoft Warrant Challenge Could Alter US-EU Data Pact

Law360, New York (June 8, 2015, 11:54 AM EDT) -- The current data privacy debate involving the transfer of personal data from Europe to the U.S. by American companies centers on two competing characterizations. The moral-driven narrative posits that U.S. corporations have no regard for European privacy concerns or their data protection laws, which enshrine "the basic principle of confidentiality of personal data ... as a human right."[1] The economic-driven narrative, however, posits that Europeans are less concerned about protecting privacy than they are about undermining the dominance of U.S. Internet companies in European markets....

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