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3 May 2014

Author:
Derek Scally, Irish Times

Ireland: prisoner of Big Tech?

[A] court case began scrutinising...the Data Protection Commissioner. This was not a trial but a judicial review. The question before the High Court: was the commissioner right not to probe allegations by the whistleblower Edward Snowden that Facebook’s Dublin subsidiary may have passed on data of its European users to the US intelligence services?..[T]he Data Protection Commissioner...ruled that Facebook’s Prism transfers were covered by existing EU-US data agreements, so were beyond his remit and required no further attention. Th[e] court...challenge[s] his ruling...[refers to Anglo Irish Bank, Google]

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