Lawyer and activist Maximilian Schrems may, as the user of a private Facebook account, bring an action against the American social network for infringing his privacy in the courts of his country of residence but he may not act for other consumers who have assigned their claims to him, said Advocate General Michal Bobek in an opinion delivered on Tuesday, 14 November (case C-498/16).
Austrian citizen Maximilian Schrems, famous for being behind the annulment of the Safe Harbour agreement for...