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Following a ruling that the European Safe Harbor agreement is invalid earlier this month, Irish authorities plan to investigate the company’s data transfers under the act. According to the BBC, Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner has told Dublin’s High Court that she plans to perform a “quick” investigation into Facebook’s practices after Europe’s highest court ruled the country was required to look into the matter. The allegations come from privacy activist Max Schrems, who alleged that Facebook broke Europe’s Safe Harbor agreement when it was revealed the NSA spied on technology companies’ European users. Facebook, however, maintains that the case is “not about”…

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