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October 20, 2015 04:00 pm

Irish Data Protection Commissioner Ordered To Investigate Facebook Data

New submitter bigtomrodney writes: Following last week's ruling by the European Court of Justice ruling on Safe Harbour, the Irish High Court has quashed the former decision of the Data Protection Commissioner not to investigate Facebook. In the current vacuum of legislation and given that this challenge is directly focussed on U.S. intelligence agency's gathering of European citizen's data, this makes for interesting times ahead. See this story from earlier this month for a bit more background; all this fuss comes down mostly to efforts by one determined gadfly (Max Schrems) and the attention he's brought to the issue of privacy when data crosses national (or at least notional) borders.

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