Irish privacy watchdog to investigate Facebook over spying allegations

Austrian Facebook user Maximilian Schrems filed a complaint with the DPC in 2013, in the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations about the U.S. National Security Agency’s PRISM surveillance system.

The DPC initially dismissed the complaint as “frivolous,” a decision Schrems went on to challenge in the Irish high court.

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