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CJEU: Facebook data privacy case opens in European court - European Court of Justice to hear arguments arising from High Court case here last year

24 March 2015

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"Europes highest court will today examine a complaint that United States technology companies and their Dublin-based subsidiaries participate in a global data dragnet in breach of European Union law.

In a case with far-reaching consequences for EU-US relations, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) will hear arguments arising from a complaint filed in Ireland last year with the High Court, demanding the States data-protection commissioner investigate whether Facebook was in breach of EU law for allegedly passing European user data to US intelligence services."

See: Facebook data privacy case opens in European court - European Court of Justice to hear arguments arising from High Court case here last year (Irish Times, link)

And see: Europe v Facebook: the beginning of the end for NSA spying on EU citizens? (EU Law Analysis, link)

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