Data privacy activist Max Schrems: forever David

The image of David and Goliath is corny, but inevitable: For in his long years of struggle for the right to informational self-determination Max Schrems has not included it only with the Facebook group and the Irish data protection authority, but in a broader sense, with the American intelligence apparatus, and the interests of the entire non-European digital economy.

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Constantin van Lijnden

an editor for the Frankfurter Allgemeine objection.

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in 2015, three years after the completion of his law studies, achieved of the said 1987 born Austrian, his first spectacular victory before the European court of justice, at the time under the name “Safe Harbor” that have migrated to the practice of transfer of data of European companies in the United States for the unlawful. At the latest since then, Schrems has become the symbol of the rebellion against uncontrolled data collecting and spying.

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