A legal claim by the Irish data protection commissioner, querying the validity of data transfer channels between the US and the UK following a complaint against Facebook, is “of the utmost importance to the US and to the broader public,” the US government claims.
The High Court in Dublin will hear an unprecedented application by the US to join a High Court case on 7 July 2016, brought by the Irish information commissioner to consider the validity of contractual clauses which are used to govern transfers of data between the EU and the US.
