The EU Court of Justice has struck down the so-called Privacy Shield data protection arrangements between the political bloc and the US, triggering a fresh wave of legal confusion over the transfer of EU subjects' data to America.
Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems brought the latest edition of the long-running case (informally known as Schrems II) in 2015, complaining that Ireland's data protection agency wasn't preventing Facebook Ireland Ltd (as EU representative of the Zuckerberg empire) from beaming his data to the US.
Once his data was in the US, Schrems argued, no EU-style data privacy controls were legally enforceable by him or anyone else in that situation. America's plethora of three-letter spy agencies could then help themselves to it in various legal and not-so-legal ways, at least under ..
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