From ComputerWorld: The French data protection authority has ordered Facebook to stop some transfers of personal data of its users to the U.S. and to change the way it handles the data of users and non-users visiting its website.
The order by the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL), released late Monday, invokes an order in October last year by the Court of Justice of the European Union, which declared invalid a "safe harbor" agreement governing personal data transfers between the European Union and the U.S., as the data was not protected from spying by U.S. agencies.
The U.S. and the EU this month agreed on a new arrangement, called the EU-US Privacy Shield, that aims to replace the safe harbor. But it is not yet in operation as data protection authorities in various European countries have to first assess whether it adequately protects personal data.
CNIL points to Facebook's data policy, which states that it "complies with US-EU and US-Swiss Safe Harbor framework for the collection, use and retention of information from the European Union and Switzerland, as set out by the Department of Commerce."
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