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File photo: Austria's Max Schrems listens to a ruling at the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. October 6, 2015.

Video. ECJ invalidates EU-US data transfer agreement over surveillance fears

Updated: 16/07/2020 - 17:21 GMT+2

The court stressed that personal data transferred outside the bloc must be "afforded the level of protection essentially equivalent to that guaranteed within the EU."

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