Chủ Nhật, 29 tháng 3, 2015

Do Facebook and the USA violate EU data protection law? The CJEU hearing in Schrems

  Simon McGarr, solicitor at McGarr solicitors Last week, the CJEU held a hearing in the important case of Schrems v Data Protection Commissioner, which concerns a legal challenge brought by an Austrian law student to the transfers of his personal data to the USA by Facebook, on the grounds that his data would be subject to mass surveillance under US law, as revealed by Edward Snowden. His legal challenge was actually brought against...