Any Port in a Storm

Safe Harbor was established in 2000, and it is designed to provide legal protection to U.S. companies and organizations that, as part of their European operations, gather personal data about people living there, including employees and customers. Companies that sign up for Safe Harbor avoid the prospect that the EU might perfunctorily shut down their network operations from Europe. With Safe Harbor, the EU can spot-check and, if it doesn't like what it sees, it can complain to the Federal Trade Commission. Over 100 firms have signed up for Safe Harbor.

It's not perfect, however. Woe to those who run afoul of the data police, which can mete out fines and even cut off data flow if they wish. When Microsoft quarreled with Spanish ...

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