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Poll: Do you trust Facebook and Google to protect your data?

Ole Tangen JrOctober 5, 2015

On Tuesday, the European Court of Justice will release a much-anticipated judgment on whether private European data stored on servers in the US are secure. The deciding factor is where the data are stored and processed.

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In that regard, big players like Facebook, Google and others prefer to store data in their home countries. As a result, the data are governed by American data privacy regulations - and those regulations are significantly less stringent than those in the European Union. A ruling against Facebook and Google could potentially have huge implications on these companies and European users.