On Tuesday 3 October, the Irish High Court asked the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) to take position on whether the Irish regulator, the Data Protection Commission (DPC), is authorised to suspend or ban the transfer of Facebook Ireland users' personal data to the United States.
This question was asked in the framework of a dispute brought by the Austrian lawyer Max Schrems - who was behind the CJEU's decision to overturn the 'Safe Harbour' agreement that preceded the current...