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IRELAND-EU: High Court refers Facebook privacy case to Europe

19 June 2014

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"The High Court has referred questions raised by a case taken by an Austrian privacy activist over the alleged mass transfer of personal data to US intelligence services to the European Court of Justice. Privacy campaigner Max Schrems had argued that the Data Protection Commissioner, Billy Hawkes, wrongly refused to investigate whistleblower Edward Snowden’s claims that Dublin-based Facebook International had passed on its EU users’ data to the US National Security Agency as part of its Prism surveillance programme. While the judge did not find in Mr Schrems’s favour today, he adjourned the case pending a reference to the European court."

See the article: High Court refers Facebook privacy case to Europe (Irish Times, link)

And see: Judgment (18 June, pdf)

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