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Facebook gets leave to appeal to Ireland’s Supreme Court after failing to block data transfer referral to CJEU

sudshr47 July 31, 2018

Facebook has been given the go ahead to appeal to Ireland’s Supreme Court against an earlier High Court decision to refer key questions relating to the validity of EU-US data flows to Europe’s top court, the Irish Times reports. The eventual outcome of what is already years of legal to-ing and fro-ing — in a […]

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Facebook denied a stay to Schrems II privacy referral

sudshr47 May 2, 2018

Facebook’s attempt to block a series of legal questions relating to a long-running EU privacy case from being referred to Europe’s top court has been throw out by Ireland’s High Court. Earlier this week the company’s lawyers had asked the Irish High Court to stay the referral to the CJEU of a number of key legal […]