Irish DPC agrees to decide swiftly on Facebook's EU-US transfers

Data Transfers Irish DPC settles Judicial Review and agrees to decide swiftly. Blocked procedure on Facebook's EU-US data flows can continue. The DPC has agreed with Max Schrems' demand to swiftly end a 7.5 year battle over EU-US data transfers by Facebook and come to a decision on Facebook's EU-US data flows. This only came after a Judicial Review against the DPC was filed by Mr Schrems. The case would have been heard by the Irish High Court today. New "own volition" procedure blocked pending complaint from 2013. The Irish Data Protection Comission (DPC) oversees the European operations of Facebook. In Summer 2020 the European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruled on a complaint by Mr Schrems that had been pending since 2013 and came before the CJEU for the second time ("Schrems II"): Under the CJEU jdugement the DPC must stop Facebook's EU-US data flows over extreme US Surveillance Laws (like FISA 702). Instead of implementing this ruling, the DPC started a new "own volition" case and paused