nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20180817-163327-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 180817s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20180817-163327-0 doi eng 342 23 Fahey, Elaine Author aut Facebook’s Efforts to Squash Scrutiny of the EU-US Privacy Shield Fahey, Elaine Verfassungsblog 2018-08-17 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Currently, Facebook is before the Supreme Court in Ireland asking to curtail judicial powers that allow courts to refer questions on the EU-US Privacy Shield Agreement to the CJEU. This is part of an ongoing litigation of Max Schrems, who was still an Austrian law student at the start of the litigation, against the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) in the jurisdiction of Ireland where Facebook currently holds its EU headquarters for tax and company law purposes. The litigation has the capacity to change the face of the transatlantic relationship, not least now, at a critical juncture of fragility and uncertainty and represents an extraordinary step. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 European Parliament Irish Data Protection Commission Safe Harbour Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/facebooks-efforts-to-squash-scrutiny-of-the-eu-us-privacy-shield/ raw object