A High Court judge is hearing arguments about the issues the Court of Justice of the EU should address in deciding the validity or otherwise of European Commission decisions approving EU-US data transfer channels used by Facebook and others.

The US government has said it is "critically important" its views are taken into account when the High Court finalises questions to be decided by the Court of Justice of the EU concerning the validity of EU-US data transfer channels.

A data transfer case with potentially huge ramifications for EU trade with the US has been referred to Europe's highest court.

A High Court judge has raised issues with lawyers for the US government about the effect of findings of non-compliance by US intelligence agencies with restrictions on surveillance, writes Ann O'Loughlin.

The US government has asked the High Court to take account of a “significant” decision last month stopping the collection of a certain category of personal data by the US National Security Agency.

A clash between the Data Protection Commissioner and the US government over the adequacy of US legal safeguards for the data privacy rights of EU citizens has emerged at the Commercial Court.

A High Court judge will hear the action by the Data Protection Commissioner over the legality of existing data transfer channels between the EU and US next year.

New rules governing transatlantic data transfers have been formally approved, months after Europe’s top court ruled against the previous arrangements amid concerns over surveillance activity by US intelligence agencies.

The US government has said the Irish data protection commissioner’s major action querying the validity of the main channels being used for EU-US data transfers is “of the utmost importance to the US and to the broader public”.

The US government wants to be joined to legal proceedings here involving issues of huge significance for privacy rights of EU citizens, arising from the internet transfer of their personal data to the US.

The Irish Data Protection Commissioner is to refer concerns to the European Court of Justice that could have significant implications for multinational companies such as Facebook.

The privacy campaigner who successfully challenged a treaty which allowed the data of millions of European citizens be transferred to the US has warned he may take more cases.

A treaty allowing technology giants to send personal data about millions of EU citizens to the US has been ruled invalid.

A landmark European privacy ruling will have significant repercussions for Facebook, the EU, and the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, a digital rights group has claimed.

Europe’s highest court will give its first indication this week in how it will rule in a landmark case that may determine how the data of EU citizens held by US firms is protected.

An Austrian student’s legal battle against Facebook, accusing it of helping the US security service collect personal data, suffered a setback after a Vienna court rejected his case on procedural grounds, both sides said yesterday.

Anybody who does not want their Facebook information collected by US intelligence agencies should shut down their page. Such was the evidence given to the European Court of Justice.

Minister says people must have their trust and confidence in digital environment strengthened

Facebook has been given four weeks to reply to a class action over online privacy.

A lawyer suing Facebook in a class action over online privacy will limit the scale of the lawsuit after being overwhelmed with support.

A lawyer suing Facebook in a class action over online privacy will limit the scale of the lawsuit after being overwhelmed with support.

A lawyer has called on Facebook’s one billion users worldwide to join a class action fight against the social network over privacy rights.

A privacy campaigner faces going bust over a landmark battle to find out what Facebook tells US spy chiefs unless he gets commitments on legal costs.

The Irish High Court has gone to Europe over a privacy law ruling that could have major repercussions, writes Maria Helen Murphy

The European Court of Justice (ECJ) is to be asked to examine the law governing data protection following a student’s legal challenge over the rejection of his complaint about interference with personal privacy by the mass transfer of data by Facebook to the US intelligence services.

The data protection commissioner was wrong to refuse to investigate a complaint that the Irish arm of Facebook could not permit the mass transfer of personal data to US intelligence services, it has been claimed.

A judicial review brought by an Austrian student over the transfer of personal information by Facebook is to go ahead in the High Court in Dublin this week.

AUSTRIAN law student Max Schrems may be just one of about 800 million Facebook users, but that hasn’t stopped him tackling the US giant behind the social networking website over its privacy policies.