Max Schrems is hoping for approval from the EU Court of Justice to bring an Austrian-style collective suit against Facebook. Unlike the earlier case in Ireland which dealt primarily with US mass surveillance, this Austria-based case focuses on the commercial misuse of personal data by Facebook. The lawsuit addresses alleged violations of privacy by Facebook through, for starters, its misuse of personal data and tracking of users on external pages. He is backed by his earlier case that the user data of EU citizens was not sufficiently protected when shipped to the U.S.
An opinion is expected by November 7th from Advocate General Michal Bobek, a court advisor, the final judgment by the end of the year.
The case is C-498/16, Schrems.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Friday July 21 2017, @04:31AM (3 children)
Because, unlike the "libertarian societies", they decided to pay their government enough taxes to do exactly that - protect their privacy. Their democratic choice of a government, really.
You don't like it, then don't live in Austria. If Facebook doesn't like it, then FB is free to cease doing business in Austria.
It's just that simple, so better stop whinging.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @05:28AM (2 children)
I think you don't know how taxes work.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 21 2017, @05:50AM
That's irrelevant to the matter at hand.
If you think you know better, present your arguments (thumbs up, though, for admitting a dose of subjectivity in your assertion, instead of just tabling them as "the absolute truth").
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 21 2017, @06:00AM
I think I can read and understand sentences such in TFA [bloomberg.com] as:
which I interpret as "some Austrians' tax money were used to pay for the representatives of the Austrian government that appeared in EU court on Wednesday".
Is my understanding wrong? If so, how?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford