EU Court Adviser to Offer Opinion on Facebook's Use of Data Protection Safeguards

Facebook’s clash with Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems reaches a critical point when an adviser to Europe’s top court will offer his view on whether tools used by companies to transfer data abroad protect European citizens’ data. The U.S. social media giant and companies ranging from banks to industrial giants use standard contractual clauses to transfer personal data to the United States and other parts of the world.