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Data privacy: stricter European rules will have repercussions in Australia as global divisions grow

  • Written by Normann Witzleb, Associate Professor in Law, Monash University
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A big year for privacy just got bigger. On July 16, Europe’s top court ruled on the legality of two mechanisms for cross-border transfers of personal data.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) struck down the “EU-US Privacy Shield”, an intergovernmental agreement on which thousands of US companies based...

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