The recent ruling in Schrems v Facebook has the potential to cause disruption to US genealogy companies and to the DNA testing companies. The New York Times has a good review of the issues: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/11/business/international/behind-the-european-privacy-ruling-thats-confounding-silicon-valley.html See here for the ECTJ Press Release http://curia.europa.eu/jcms/upload/docs/application/pdf/2015-10/cp150117en.pdf And here for the Decision, opinions and application: http://curia.europa.eu/juris/documents.jsf?num=C-362/14 -- Steven C. Perkins SCPerkins@gmail.com http://stevencperkins.com/ Indigenous Peoples' Rights http://intelligent-internet.info/law/ipr2.html Indigenous & Ethnic Minority Legal News http://iemlnews.blogspot.com/ Online Journal of Genetics and Genealogy http://jgg-online.blogspot.com/ S.C. Perkins' Genealogy Page http://stevencperkins.com/genealogy.html S.C. Perkins' Genealogy Blog http://scpgen.blogspot.com/