Privacy activist Max Schrems called on the European authorities to push the Irish regulator to speed up its handling of cases he has brought against Facebook on the second anniversary of the introduction of rules designed to help protect the data of consumers. Schrems, long a thorn in the side of Facebook, bemoaned the lack of progress since the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) regime across Europe in 2018.
FILE PHOTO: Austrian lawyer and privacy activist Max Schrems smiles during a Reuters interview in Vienna, Austria, May 22, 2018. REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader
The letter’s recipients are the national data protection authorities, the European Commission, the EU Parliament and the European Data Protection Board . Ireland’s DPC, asked for comment on the letter, said it had currently 23 “big tech” inquiries open and last Friday announced significant developments in a number of these inquiries, including three that were initiated after complaints received from Max Schrems’s non-profit organisation noyb.
The Irish Data Protection Commission is the lead regulator in the Facebook cases as the firm has its European headquarters in Dublin.
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