Ireland’s Supreme Court is set to decide whether it will hear Facebook’s appeal against a decision by the High Court’s to refer key issues on the validity of data-transfer channels between the European Union and the United States to the European Court of Justice. The US...
Facebook had reportedly made a last ditch effort to block the referral of its Irish privacy case to the European Court of Justice to avoid a ban on the legal instrument that allows the company to send user data back to the US. It is said...
Last Friday, the Investigatory powers tribunal said that it is up to the European Court of Justice to decide whether the UK’s mass digital surveillance powers is legal. Privacy International, the campaign group that brought the case, saw the ruling as a victory. However, the...