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Title    Austria Resident Max Schrems is Organizing a Privacy-Oriented Class-Action Suit Against Facebook
Date    Friday July 21 2017, @02:51AM
Author    martyb
Topic   
from the 25,000-people-can't-all-be-wrong dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/07/20/1936235

canopic jug writes:

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.


Original Submission

Links

  1. "canopic jug" - https://soylentnews.org/~canopic+jug/
  2. "Facebook Challenged by Activist Who Broke EU-U.S. Data Pact" - https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-19/facebook-challenged-by-activist-who-broke-eu-u-s-data-pact
  3. "Austrian activist, 25,000 supporters seek right to bring class-action suit against Facebook" - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-eu-dataprotection-facebook-austria-idUSKBN1A420R
  4. "Facebook Ireland fights Max Schrems over class action suit" - https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-and-law/facebook-ireland-fights-max-schrems-over-class-action-suit-1.3160137
  5. "C-498/16, Schrems" - http://curia.europa.eu/juris/liste.jsf?num=C-498/16
  6. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=21330

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