The Irish DPC had not yet received Europe vs. At the time of writing, almost A!6,000 had been donated.
Schrems expects to need between A!100,000 and A!300,000 to cover court costs, and has launched a crowd funding platform at to seek donations. The main problem is with Facebook and not with the DPC, he emphasized. "But Facebook can join them and we expect them to do so," he said, adding that if that happens Facebook would be a party in the litigation. Legal action would be primarily directed at the Irish DPC, said Max Schrems, the Austrian law student who founded the group. When this case becomes before the court it is likely to go all the way to the European Court of Justice (ECJ), because user privacy is important enough to be a "landmark for the whole IT industry," Europe vs. However, the group expects that "the authority might not decide in the interest of users on all complaints," which would make a court procedure the only option left. The conclusions of the last audit were non-binding. Once it has this information, the group will ask the DPC for a formal, legally binding decision on all 22 complaints it has made.
In the report, the group reiterated its request that the DPC deliver all necessary files, evidence and counterarguments disclosed by Facebook that the group has not been allowed to see. Facebook prepared its report for the DPC, which had asked the group to comment on its findings. "This is like an engineer that says that as long as he hasnt read about a bridge collapsing it should be perfectly safe," the group said.Įurope vs. The group also criticizes the opinion of an expert used by the DPC that said that because there were no widely reported data breaches Facebook is secure. citizens, while the Irish data protection watchdog is responsible for all users outside the U.S.
The group also questioned why Facebook only deleted facial recognition data concerning E.U. "In our test the tools which allow to access all data have often times just produced white pages," it said. For example, Facebook sent incomplete responses to more than 40,000 users who requested a copy of all the data Facebook held about them, the group said. The campaign group acknowledged that the audit has led to improvements in Facebook's behavior, but said many are "halfhearted" in their compliance with E.U.
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