Facebook’s Efforts to Squash Scrutiny of the EU-US Privacy Shield

Facebook’s Efforts to Squash Scrutiny of the EU-US Privacy Shield Fahey, Elaine Author aut Text xx# 2018 Verfassungsblog 2018-08-17 eng Currently, Facebook is before the Supreme Court in Ireland asking to curtail judicial powers that allow courts to refer questions on the EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement to the CJEU. This is part of an ongoing litigation of Max Schrems, who was still an Austrian law student at the start of the litigation, against the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) in the jurisdiction of Ireland where Facebook currently holds its EU headquarters for tax and company law purposes. The litigation has the capacity to change the face of the transatlantic relationship, not least now, at a critical juncture of fragility and uncertainty and represents an extraordinary step. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Fahey, Elaine funded by the government European Parliament Irish Data Protection Commission Safe Harbour 342 https://staging.verfassungsblog.de/facebooks-efforts-to-squash-scrutiny-of-the-eu-us-privacy-shield/ Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.17176/20180817-163327-0 180817 10.17176/20180817-163327-0 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)