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Re:Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from ... by robin_reala on Saturday January 07, 2017 @10:05AM (#13344429)
To be pedantic, Safe Harbour died in 2015. The replacement is the EU-US Privacy Shield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EU-US_Privacy_Shield
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Re:Russia Requires Apple and Google to Remove LinkedIn from ... by dane-pgp on Saturday January 07, 2017 @10:15AM (#13344480)
Indeed, and this "Privacy Shield" is already being challenged in European courts:

http://www.natlawreview.com/article/legal-challenge-to-eu-us...

The bigger question to be asked here is, with China demanding the removal of the NYT app, and Russia demanding the same for LinkedIn, how long before Trump orders Signal or Telegram to be removed?

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