The recent European Court of Justice decision to strike down a data-sharing accord between the EU and the US is based on a recognition of "the fundamental right to respect for private life." The accord, which had allowed over four thousand companies, Facebook and Google among them, to transfer data from Europe to the United States, had been in effect since 2000, but after the 2013 revelations of massive surveillance by the National Security Agency, the safeguards the deal offered no longer convinced Europe's highest court. Edward Snowden, the man responsible for blowing the whistle on the US government's spying programs, helped a British comedian to show Americans that perhaps their privacy is also worth protecting. Today's program then returns to Madrid, and the the special project for children sponsored by the Teatro Real.
