Facebook urges Supreme Court to halt referral to European court over EU-US data transfers

The Court of Justice of the EU has been asked to decide “immensely” important issues about the validity of EU-US data transfers based on “extraordinary and incorrect findings” by the Irish High Court about the US legal system, Facebook has argued before the Supreme Court.

Facebook disputes the High Court’s view that the Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) had raised “well founded” concerns, including about “mass indiscriminate processing” of data by US government agencies under the PRISM and Upstream programmes authorised there.