US Joins Case over Facebook Data Transfers from EU

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

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