The safe harbor principles require that a company seek explicit agreement of a data subject before transferring personal data to another company.

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The technology could be key for transferring data between massively multiple core chips - devices with several linked computing engines.

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In the early days, the net was an academic oddity used for transferring arcane data sets.

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IBM, transferring 300 gigabytes of data a month from home.

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