By John Glenday

Ireland has referred Facebook’s data transfer procedures to the Court of Justice of the European Union, casting fresh doubts over the legality of the practice, following the scrapping of a so-called Safe Harbor agreement allowing unfettered exchanges of such data across the Atlantic.

Since then, the Irish privacy watchdog has been looking to determine that proper protections are in place to protect data on EU citizens from surveillance by the US government.

A Facebook spokeswoman said: “Thousands of companies transfer data across borders to serve their customers and users. The question the Irish Data Protection Commissioner plans to raise with the court Read full story ›

Source: The Drum