Tech companies like Facebook not above the law, says Max Schrems

Austrian student who took on Facebook over data privacy in the European court of justice and won says the fightback is just beginning

The EU's safe harbour ruling is a "puzzle piece in the fight against mass surveillance, and a huge blow to tech companies who think they can act in total ignorance of the law," says Max Schrems, the man who brought the case.

"US companies are realising that European laws are getting more and more enforced. But still, people don't believe that a court would order Google or Facebook to do something - they wouldn't dare. Well, yes, they fucking would," he said, speaking in Vienna.