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Article

24 Mar 2015

Author:
Derek Scally, Irish Times

European Court of Justice to hear data privacy case against Facebook

"Facebook data privacy case opens in European court", 24 Mar 2015

Europe’s 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... “Safe Harbour” [rules] allow US companies process data collected in the EU once they “self-certify” that this processing meets EU standards of “adequate protection” even outside EU borders. Privacy campaigners have long doubted the efficacy of the 2000 Safe Harbour regime, as has the European Commission...Privacy campaigners hope the court will rule to end Safe Harbour provisions, though ongoing data protection talks in Brussels mean the EU’s privacy goalposts are already in motion.