Tuesday, December 8, 2015

With No European Safe Harbor, Facebook Faces Privacy Complaints On Multiple Fronts

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 the Safe Harbor transatlantic data-sharing agreement.

Schrems has now filed an updated complaint against Facebook with the Irish data protection authority — where his original complaint was filed back in June 2013. The substance of the complaint relates to European Facebook users’ data being pulled into NSA mass surveillance programs once it has been exported to the U.S. — and thereby, Schrems contends, undermining fundamental European data protection rights.

by Natasha Lomas 
read full article at Techcrunch 

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