United States joins case over Facebook data transfers from EU


  • TECH
  • Wednesday, 20 Jul 2016

3D-printed models of people are seen in front of a Facebook logo in this photo illustration taken June 9, 2016. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration

DUBLIN: The United States can join a landmark case on the legality of cross-border data transfers, an Irish court ruled in a move that gives US authorities a platform to defend their surveillance laws before the European Union's top court. 

The US authorities had asked the Irish High Court to be a party to the case taken by Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems against Facebook, which has its European headquarters in Dublin, over data transfers from the EU to the United States. 

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