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EU court cancels US data-sharing pact over snooping concerns

by Associated Press
| July 17, 2020 12:03 AM

The European Union’s top court ruled Thursday that an agreement that allows thousands of companies — from tech giants to small financial firms — to transfer data to the United States is invalid because the American government can snoop on people's data.

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