EU top court to rule in landmark Facebook, Schrems privacy case

BRUSSELS: Europe's top court will on Thursday rule on the legality of tools companies use to transfer Europeans' data around the world, in the latest clash between Facebook and Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems.

The industry body's members include Amazon, AT&T, Cisco, Citi, Facebook, Google, GlaxoSmithKline, HSBC, Huawei, Microsoft, Lockheed Martin and KPMG. It took the European Commission, the EU executive, and the United States more than a year to agree an alternative.Known as the Privacy Shield, it is designed to protect Europeans' personal data that is transferred outside the European Union when companies sign contracts with non-EU companies on outsourcing services, including payroll and cloud infrastructure.

Former U.S. intelligence contractor Edward Snowden's revelations in 2013 of mass U.S. surveillance increased EU concerns about data transfers.

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