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Threatening the cross-border data flows enabled by...

Threatening the cross-border data flows enabled by the Safe Harbor Agreement between the U.S. and the EU won’t solve the problem of government surveillance, BSA/The Software Alliance said in a Thursday blog post (http://bit.ly/14LRqZ0). The post referenced calls from some…

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European officials to suspend and terminate the agreement. But the agreement is “a functioning framework backed by meaningful enforcement, with industry committed to compliance,” BSA said. Limiting commercial data flows would have a “significant negative impact on the ability of US and European companies to deliver services to users on both sides of the Atlantic,” it said. It would not improve protections in place for EU citizens with regard to government access to data, it said.