Sunday, 29. May 2016
Topic: AUSTRIA - on May 29, 2016 at 12:01:00 PM CEST
Privacy whiz Max Schrems set to challenge other big firms
Tech industry be warned. Privacy campaigner Max Schrems plans on setting up an NGO to enforce people's rights. The Austrian, whose case against Facebook Ireland helped unravel a data-sharing pact between the EU and the US known as Safe Harbour, now has his eyes set on taking on others who flaunt the rules. Edward Snowden, the former NSA agent who blew the lid off US-led mass surveillance, said last year Schrems had "changed the world for the better" when Safe Harbour ended up on the scrap heap of bad EU legislation. Today, Schrems, whose crowdfunded legal campaign against Facebook started when he was only a 24-year old student, is mulling a new master-plan.
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