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I agree with the general idea of what you say, but this is not intended to put anything on a firm legal footing.

As I understand it, EU privacy law is fundamentally incompatible with US spying requirements, both sides know it, neither side cares.

The plan is to make one illegal agreement after another, each giving about 2 years of pseudo-protection until the slow EU legal procedures catch up. Then start anew with the next agreement.



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