Is Austria's Max Schrems US high-tech giants' worst nightmare?
Few in America's Silicon Valley could have predicted that a young Austrian law graduate who spent a semester studying there would one day become high-tech companies' worst nightmare.
(AFP/ADW) Few in America's Silicon Valley could have predicted that a young Austrian law graduate who spent a semester studying there would one day become high-tech companies' worst nightmare.
Yet that's exactly what Max Schrems achieved on Tuesday when the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg ruled in his favour, declaring that a key transatlantic data deal relied on by giant corporations such as Facebook was invalid in the light of widespread spying revealed by the Edward Snowden scandal.
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