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Europe wants to keep its citizens personal data out of the US
Over the pond, there's a rule preventing companies from moving a user's personal data outside of Europe unless the receiving country has adequate data protection laws. In practice, this means that a company like Twitter can push stored information on a British user to a server in San Francisco, and vice-versa, and plenty of it happens on a regular basis. Now, however, one of the continent's highest legal minds wants to put a stop to it, or at least make sure that it's better regulated. Yves Bot is an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice, and has written a paper saying that America's cavalier attitude to data is dangerous, and should be stopped.
