Facebook’s European privacy practices are to be investigated by the Irish data protection watchdog, after a three-year legal fight by Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems.The high court in Dublin quashed the Irish data protection commissioner’s original refusal to examine Schrems’ complaint over the alleged movement of his data outside of Europe by Facebook after referring the case to the European court of justice.
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Facebook requests a say in Austrian student’s privacy case
Facebook Inc on Monday requested the chance to voice its opinion in a legal challenge mounted by an Austrian law student against the Irish privacy regulator for refusing to investigate the U.S. company’s transfers of data to the United States.
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