Facebook assures it has ‘done nothing wrong’ in response to EU court ruling on data sharing

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by Sindy Cator on October 6, 2015 at 12:52 pm

Facebook has responded to a decision by the EU Court of Justice to deem the Safe Harbor agreement invalid, Business Insider reports. The company said that this case “is not about Facebook” and ” the Advocate General himself said that Facebook has done nothing wrong.” Safe Harbor was what allowed companies in the EU and US, like Facebook, Google and Microsoft, to move users’ information and data between facilities in different countries. The legality of this process was challenged after Edward Snowden’s infamous leak about the NSA and the US government’s potential spying methods. Facebook’s statement goes on to say that the problem…