It will be up to the Irish High Court to determine “whether a regulator unlawfully failed to investigate alleged links between Facebook and the surveillance of data conducted by U.S. intelligence officials through the PRISM programme,” Out-Law.com reports. Privacy activist group Europe v Facebook recently won the right to a judicial review of the Office of the Irish Data Protection Commissioner’s (ODPC) decision not to look into the issue. The ODPC has indicated it will “strongly contest the case when the hearings begin,” the report states, citing an ODPC statement confirming “we will be vigorously defending our position.”
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