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We start in the tiny state of luxembourg where a legal battle between privacy campaigners and tech giants including facebook reaches a critical moment today. What the European Court ofjustice is advised by one of its top lawyers could affect how the personal data of hundreds of millions of people is handled. Its all about the rules which allow companies to transfer peoples data out of the European Union primarily to the us where most tech giants are based. Its being driven by austrian activist max schrems this who first challenged facebook over privacy as a young law student eight years ago. In 2015 he successfully challenged the eus old system of safeguarding its citizens data when it was transferred to the us arguing it wasnt good enough. If the court agrees that the eus latest system isnt up to scratch then thousands of companies from tech firms to banks to carmakers would have to stop exporting eu citizens data. Under new general Data Protection regulations gdpr they could be fined

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