J.R.McHale

[**The Judgment**](http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=169195&mode=req&pageIndex=1&dir=&occ=first&part=1&text=&doclang=EN&cid=386060) of the Court of Justice of the European Union (October 6, 2015)

[**Press Release**](http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2015-10/cp150117en.pdf) of the Court of Justice of the European Union

[**Interview**](http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/2015/10/14/ecj-president-on-eu-integration-public-opinion-safe-harbor-antitrust/) (Wall Street Journal) with the new President of the European Court of Justice

**News Reports:**

> [Data Transfer Pact Between U.S. and Europe Is Ruled Invalid](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/07/technology/european-union-us-data-collection.html?_r=0) – New York Times

> [This Privacy Activist Has Just won an Enormous Victory Against U.S. surveillance – Here’s How](https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/10/06/this-privacy-activist-has-just-won-an-enormous-victory-against-u-s-surveillance-heres-how/) – Washington Post

**Layperson Explainer:**

> [US and EU in Data Privacy Clash: What You Need to Know](http://www.cnbc.com/2015/10/07/eu-safe-harbor-ruling-what-is-it-and-what-does-it-mean-for-us-tech-firms.html) – CNBC

**Subsequent Developments – What Now?**

> [Privacy Watchdogs Give EU, US Three Months to Negotiate New Safe Harbor Deal
If There’s No New Deal by the End of January, National Data Protection Authorities Threaten Coordinated Legal Action Against Offending Companies](http://www.pcworld.com/article/2994815/privacy-watchdogs-give-eu-us-three-months-to-negotiate-new-safe-harbor-deal.html) – PCWorld

> [Europe’s Top Digital-Privacy Watchdog Zeros In on U.S. Tech Giants](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/25/technology/europes-top-digital-privacy-watchdog-zeros-in-on-us-tech-giants.html?_r=0) – New York Times

> [U.S. Tech Firms Look To Data Centers on European Soil](http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/10/06/u-s-tech-firms-look-to-data-centers-on-european-soil/) – Wall Street Journal

**Plaintiff Max Schrems:**

> [Tech Companies Like Facebook Not Above the Law, Says Max Schrems; Austrian Student Who Took on Facebook over Data Privacy in the European Court of Justice and Won Says the Fightback is Just Beginning](http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/oct/09/facebook-data-privacy-max-schrems-european-court-of-justice) – The Guardian

> [First Thoughts on Decision C-362/14](http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/Complaints/PRISM/Response/response.html) – Max Schrems at [Europe v. Facebook](http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/EN/en.html); Also see [more Max Schrems reaction and background](http://www.europe-v-facebook.org/CJEU_IR.pdf) (pdf)

**Big Tech Reaction:**

> [The Collapse of the US-EU Safe Harbor: Solving the New Privacy Rubik’s Cube](http://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2015/10/20/the-collapse-of-the-us-eu-safe-harbor-solving-the-new-privacy-rubiks-cube/) – Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer, Brad Smith

> [Eric Schmidt Thinks a Ruling by Europe’s Top Court Threatens ‘One of the Greatest Achievements of Humanity’](http://www.businessinsider.com/eric-schmidt-ecj-safe-harbor-ruling-threatens-one-of-the-great-achievements-of-humanity-2015-10) – Business Insider

**Other Reaction and Analysis:**

> [Here’s How the Facebook Case has Just Transformed the Surveillance Debate](https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/10/06/heres-how-the-facebook-case-has-just-transformed-the-surveillance-debate/) – Washington Post

> [No Safe Harbor: How NSA Spying Undermined U.S. Tech and Europeans’ Privacy](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/10/europes-court-justice-nsa-surveilance) – EFF

> [Behind the European Privacy Ruling That’s Confounding Silicon Valley](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/business/international/behind-the-european-privacy-ruling-thats-confounding-silicon-valley.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0) – New York Times

> [Fallout From EU-US Safe Harbor Ruling will be Dramatic and Far-Reaching; Clever Ruling by the Court of Justice will be Almost Impossible to Circumvent](http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/10/fallout-from-eu-us-safe-harbour-ruling-will-be-dramatic-and-far-reaching/) – ArsTechnica

> [Schrems v. Data Protection Commissioner – Some Inconvenient Truths The European Court of Justice Ignores](https://www.lawfareblog.com/schrems-v-data-protection-commissioner-some-inconvenient-truths-european-court-justice-ignores) and [Surveillance Reform Is Only Hope for Reviving Safe Harbor](https://www.lawfareblog.com/surveillance-reform-only-hope-reviving-safe-harbor) – both by Timothy Edgar at LawFare

> [Adding Some Nuance on the European Court’s Safe Harbor Decision](https://www.justsecurity.org/26651/adding-nuance-ecj-safe-harbor-decision/) – Megan Graham at LawFare

> [Europe’s Top Court Goes Off the Rails](http://www.politico.eu/article/ecj-off-the-rails-safe-harbor-eu-us-data-protection/) – Richard Epstein at Politico

> [The Party’s Over: EU Data Protection Law after the Schrems Safe Harbour Judgment](http://eulawanalysis.blogspot.ca/2015/10/the-partys-over-eu-data-protection-law.html) – EULaw.Analysis

> [My FT Oped on the Safe Harbor Fallout](http://evgenymorozov.tumblr.com/post/130831987855/my-ft-oped-on-the-safe-harbor-fallout) – Evgeny Morozov

> [Europe Has to Rebuild Its Safe Harbor](http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-10-19/europe-has-to-rebuild-its-safe-harbor) – BloombergView Editorial Board

> [Enacting ECPA Reforms Will Help Resolve the US-EU Safe Harbor Negotiations](http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/263776-enacting-ecpa-reforms-will-help-resolve-the-us-eu-safe-harbor) – The Hill