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EU-USA: DATA SURVEILLANCE: Facebook, Skype challenged in EU over spy affair

18 July 2013

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"A group of Austrians, led by law student Max Schrems, has challenged the EU-based subsidiaries of Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Skype and Yahoo on data privacy following revelations that they allowed US intelligence services to search to Europeans' data."

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Facebook, Skype challenged in EU over spy affair (euobserver, link)

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