14/01/2021 (Agence Europe) – Austrian activist Max Schrems said on Wednesday 13 January that he had received assurances from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) that it would follow up on his 2013 complaint challenging Facebook’s transatlantic data flows. As a result, just before the three-day hearing in the Irish High Court, he announced that he was dropping the action against the DPC. “This agreement could turn the initial complaint procedure from 2013 into the case that ultimately determines the fate of Facebook transfers between the EU and the US following Edward Snowden’s revelations. Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the DPC is able to impose fines of up to 4% of Facebook’s overall turnover and to ban it from transferring data, even on the basis of this individual case”, said Schrems. (SPj)