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Facebook Data Privacy Class Action Now Oversubscribed
A civil class action lawsuit being brought against Facebook on privacy grounds by Europe vs Facebook campaigner Max Schrems has hit its current maximum of 25,000 participants less than a week after...
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European Facebook Privacy Lawsuit Heads To Court In Vienna
A class action data privacy lawsuit that’s being brought against Facebook in Europe — for participation in the NSA’s PRISM dragnet surveillance program, among other alleged data protection violations...
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Europe’s Top Court Strikes Down ‘Safe Harbor’ Data-Transfer Agreement With U.S.
The European Court of Justice has today declared invalid the Safe Harbor data-transfer agreement that has governed EU data flows across the Atlantic for some fifteen years. Read More
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Facebook ‘Class Action’ Privacy Lawsuit Moves To Austrian Supreme Court
A privacy lawsuit filed against Facebook last year by Viennese lawyer and data privacy activist Max Schrems has moved up to Austria’s Supreme Court which will rule on whether the suit can be treated...
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With No European Safe Harbor, Facebook Faces Privacy Complaints On Multiple...
Facebook’s least favorite Austrian, lawyer and privacy campaigner, Max Schrems, has updated his data protection complaints against the social network giant in the light of the recent EJC strikedown of...
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Safe Harbor Deadline Passes Without A New Deal On Transatlantic Data Flows — Yet
A deadline to agree a new deal to govern transatlantic data transfers has passed without agreement on a new, safer ‘Safe Harbor’. But talks are continuing — and Věra Jourová, the EC commissioner...
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Europe And US Seal ‘Privacy Shield’ Data Transfer Deal To Replace Safe Harbor
A new transatlantic data transfer deal has been announced today between the EU and the US. The new EU-US Privacy Shield replaces the old Safe Harbor agreement, which was invalidated by the European...
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EU-US Data Transfers Won’t Be Blocked While Privacy Shield Details Are...
The Article 29 Working Party, the body made up of representatives of individual European Member States’ data protection authorities (DPAs), has said today that it will not be taking enforcement action...
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Draft Text Of EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Deal Fails To Impress The Man Who Slayed...
The draft text of an agreement between the EU and the US to establish a new self-certification framework governing transatlantic data flows aimed at ensuring data protection and privacy compliance...
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More uncertainty over EU-U.S. data flows as Irish DPA warns on legality of...
Another development in the slow unraveling of the legal regime governing EU-U.S. data flows: the Irish data protection agency has warned that one of the mechanisms currently being used by thousands of...
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U.S. Government wants to step into European Facebook privacy legal challenge
European privacy campaigner Max Schrems’ legal challenge to Facebook has already been credited with the demise of a fifteen-year-old data transfer arrangement between the region and the U.S. last...
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Europe’s top court to weigh in on Facebook privacy ‘class action’
Europe’s top court, the CJEU, has been asked to rule on whether a privacy-related legal action brought against Facebook can be treated as a class action or not. Read More
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ACLU calls for tech firms to lobby for surveillance reform
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has put out a fresh call for tech companies to push for reform of the surveillance regime in the U.S., warning of the added urgency given new U.S. President...
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Challenge to data transfer tool used by Facebook will go to Europe’s top court
Facebook has bought itself a little more time over a major legal challenge in Europe after the Irish High Court decided not to strike down a b2b mechanism it uses to transfer user data to the U.S. for...
View ArticleEurope’s Top Court Strikes Down ‘Safe Harbor’ Data-Transfer Agreement With U.S.
The European Court of Justice has today declared invalid the Safe Harbor data-transfer agreement that has governed EU data flows across the Atlantic for some fifteen years. “The Court of Justice...
View ArticleFacebook ‘Class Action’ Privacy Lawsuit Moves To Austrian Supreme Court
A privacy lawsuit filed against Facebook last year by Viennese lawyer and data privacy activist Max Schrems has moved up to Austria’s Supreme Court which will rule on whether the suit can be treated as...
View ArticleWith No European Safe Harbor, Facebook Faces Privacy Complaints On Multiple...
Facebook’s least favorite Austrian, lawyer and privacy campaigner, Max Schrems, has updated his data protection complaints against the social network giant in the light of the recent EJC strikedown of...
View ArticleSafe Harbor Deadline Passes Without A New Deal On Transatlantic Data Flows — Yet
A deadline to agree a new deal to govern transatlantic data transfers has passed without agreement on a new, safer ‘Safe Harbor’. But talks are continuing — and Věra Jourová, the EC commissioner...
View ArticleEurope And US Seal ‘Privacy Shield’ Data Transfer Deal To Replace Safe Harbor
A new transatlantic data transfer deal has been announced today between the EU and the US. The new EU-US Privacy Shield will replace the old Safe Harbor agreement, which was invalidated by the European...
View ArticleEU-US Data Transfers Won’t Be Blocked While Privacy Shield Details Are...
A mote of certainty for US businesses that export EU data for processing and are wondering whether or not they are in compliance with EU law right now, given the legal quagmire of EU-US data protection...
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