US Seeks to Intervene in EU vs Facebook Case

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US Seeks to Intervene in EU vs Facebook Case

By CircleID Reporter
June 14, 2016, 5:14 pm PDT Views: 6,009 Add Comment

At a hearing in the Irish High Court, the US government has sought to intervene in the case between a privacy activist and Facebook. Consequently, the court has been adjourned for two weeks to give it—and other parties—time to file a motion in this regard. The Register reports: “Austrian activist and lawyer, Max Schrems, brought his complaint against the social network after the revelations of the NSA’s PRISM surveillance program, which he, alongside Digital Rights Ireland, alleged made it illegal for Facebook to shuffle European citizens’ data to America under EU law. Last year, the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) ruled in their favor. However, responding to a subsequent complaint claiming Facebook was still doing this, the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland sought ‘declaratory relief in the Irish High Court and a referral to the CJEU to determine the legal status’ of those ongoing transfers.”

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