Schrems 2.0 – Irish Courts hand down Groundbreaking Precedent on the International Transfer of Personal Information
Categories: IP
Recently, the Irish High Court handed down a groundbreaking precedent in a case known as the ‘Schrems 2’ case. This precedent is likely to affect the ability of companies to transfer personal information from Europe to USA. This was a proceeding which commenced as a complaint made against Facebook by Max Schrems, an Austrian law student, with the Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland. Schrems claimed that the transfer of his personal information by Facebook out of the European Union to its parent company in USA was contrary to European law and that such transfer should be prohibited.
