Judge raises issues concerned with US intelligence agencies collecting data on Facebook users

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.

Judge raises issues concerned with US intelligence agencies collecting data on Facebook users

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.

Ms Justice Caroline Costello raised the issues when hearing submissions about the significance for the Data Protection Commissioner's case concerning the validity of EU-US data transfers of recently announced restrictions on collection of a certain category of personal data by the US National Security Agency.

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