Article WGS3 Max Schrems demands Facebook stop EU to US data transfer due to snooping

Max Schrems demands Facebook stop EU to US data transfer due to snooping

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Samuel Gibbs
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Updated complaints to Irish, German and Belgian watchdogs call for Facebook to stop transferring EU citizens' data to US following Safe Harbour collapse

The Austrian privacy campaigner Max Schrems is demanding that Ireland, Germany and Belgium stop Facebook from transferring EU citizens' data to the US.

After successfully prompting the European Court of Justice to invalidate the Safe Harbour agreement, which governed the privacy of EU citizens' data transferred to the US until October, Schrems is attempting to force through the consequences of the court's decision.

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