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Irish Supreme Court: Facebook’s application dismissed

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In the ongoing procedure on Facebook’s involvement with the NSA under the so-called “PRISM” surveillance program before the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) and the Irish High Court, the Irish Supreme Court has today decided over an unprecedented application by Facebook. Facebook’s application was denied in substance. While the Supreme Court found that it has the jurisdiction to intervene with a lower court’s reference, Facebook was unable to substantiate the application and the Supreme Court decided to not take the actions requested by Facebook. Key Info and Downloads English Press Release (PDF) Copy of the judgment (PDF) Case dismissed by the Supreme Court Hearing at CJEU in Luxembourg on July 9th First Statement by noyb.eu Max Schrems (complainant and chairperson of noyb): “Facebook likely again invested millions to stop this case from progressing. It is good to see that the Supreme Court has not followed Facebook’s arguments that were in total denial of all existing findings

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