Germany to investigate Google, Facebook over data transfers

German data protection authorities have announced that they will immediately begin investigating data transfers from the EU to the US by companies such as Facebook and Google, and may issue orders for data flows to be halted. The recent decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) gave local data protection authorities the power to examine whether data transfers under the Safe Harbour framework breached EU laws.
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