After the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield was rendered invalid by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in July 2020, and following a prior challenge to the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor, many businesses operating on both sides of the pond scrambled to find other ways to protect data flows between the EU and U.S. that
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European Court of Justice Throws Out Class Action in Latest Schrems Battle
By Sheila Millar & Tracy P. Marshall on
Posted in Data Security, Privacy


In the latest round of the ongoing battle between Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems and Facebook, the European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled that Schrems did not have standing to bring claims on behalf of Austrian consumers over Facebook’s alleged violations of users’ privacy rights. The court did, however, allow for Schrems to continue with…