With Safe Harbor gone, the hard work on data transfers starts now

Tuesday's ruling that struck down the most common way to legally transfer data between Europe and the U.S. didn't turn multinational companies into outlaws immediately, but they'd better start working on alternatives now.That's what lawyers steeped in the arcane law of international data handling said in the aftermath of the decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union.The court said the Safe Harbor agreement that thousands of companies have relied on to move personal data across the A