BBCNEWS Business Briefing July 13, 2024
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. I...