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Few Businesses Have Joined EU Safe Harbor Agreement

Only 12 American businesses have joined the European Union Safe Harbor Agreement. The provision allows American businesses to make transfers of private data with EU citizens without violating the EU Privacy Directive.

US Businesses Slow To Adopt EU Safe Harbor Agreement, Newsbytes.com, January 4, 2001.
Safe Harbor Is a Lonely Harbor, Wired News, January 5, 2001
European Union Directive on Data Protection, Privacy International website.
Safe Harbor Provisions, Department of Commerce website.