Personal vandetta?: Schrems' crusade against Facebook has dismantled a 15-year-old data transfer framework between the EU and the US that was used by over 4,000 companies such as Google, Facebook and IBM.
BRUSSELS/FRANKFURT: From Vienna cafés to the European Union's highest court, an Austrian law student's two-year battle against Facebook and mass US surveillance culminated in a landmark ruling that has rippled across the business world.
Max Schrems, a 28-year-old Facebook user finishing his PhD in law at Vienna University, took an interest in the subject of privacy while studying for a semester abroad at Santa Clara University in California.
