by Ingrida Milkaite
The Austrian Supreme Court (ASC) has asked the European Court of Justice (ECJ) to clarify two issues associated with the Facebook privacy class action claim. The case was initiated by Austrian lawyer Maximilian Schrems five years ago.
Austrian lawyer Max Schrems invited Facebook users to join his class action against Facebook, and 25,000 people signed up, claiming 500 euros in damages each. He is seeking the right to represent all those people in the claim. Issues are to be clarified by the ECJ. (Image: public domain)
The ASC request came out on 12 September.…