Taking on two tech Goliaths at once, Schrems’s weapon of choice is Europe’s new data protection regulation (GDPR). The four complaints filed on Friday use GDPR to challenge these data collection policies and their take-it-or-leave-it approach to consent. Bundling necessary data collection with profitable extra data collection is illegal. This is a crucial legal test of many new principles of GDPR – including informed consent, and proportionate data collection – and of the State’s role as a big tech hub. The Schrems complaints – likely to play out again in the High Court – suggest she’ll need every euro she can get.

Source: The Irish Times May 26, 2018 04:00 UTC