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The EU Privacy Ruling Won’t Hurt Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Google has asserted that this will adversely affect innovation, but those claims are premature. The EU’s human rights-centered views have been influencing global standards and privacy practices in the Middle East for decades, and businesses have adapted to more restrictive markets, like China and North Korea , and thrived.

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The Business Implications of the EU-U.S. “Privacy Shield”

Harvard Business Review

An earlier agreement, known as the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles, which went back 15 years and was relied on by some 4,000 companies, was declared illegal last year based on concerns, highlighted by the Edward Snowden disclosures, that compliance with surveillance requests from U.S. Last week, the U.S.