Max Schrems: Irish Data Protection Commissioner's process is designed to fail

Mr Schrems has accused the Data Protection Commission of 'kicking the can down the road' but the Court of Justice of the European Union said the commission had been fully entitled to refer the complaint onward

Max Schrems, the Austrian lawyer and data privacy rights campaigner, received a judgment in his favour against Facebook via the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU).
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Max Schrems is probably a name the average Irish person is familiar with, though they may not be able to pinpoint why: Something to do with Facebook, he’s taken them to court, you recollect.

To the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), Mr Schrems, a now 33-year-old Austrian, is the most familiar name of them all.