Schrems displaying his Facebook account's updated terms page in a cafe in Vienna, Austria. The law student challenged Facebook's use of standard clauses on the grounds that they do not offer sufficient data protection safeguards. — Reuters
BRUSSELS: Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems' seven-year battle against Facebook reaches a crucial point on Dec 17 when an adviser to Europe's top court will issue his view on whether tools used by companies to transfer data abroad are legal or not.
At stake are standard contractual clauses used by Facebook and hundreds of thousands of companies, ranging from banks to industrial giants to carmakers, to transfer personal data to the United States and other parts of the world.
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