The European Top Court in Luxembourg will straightaway get wind the typeface in July , respondent interrogative sentence as to whether the EU citizen ‘ personal information is adequately protect from US governing superintendence during the EU - US datum carry-over . “ We are thankful to the Irish Court for view these complex interrogative , and face leading at the Court of Justice of the European Union , ” sound out Facebook in a program line . The lawsuit stem turn from an Austrian attorney Max Schrems ‘ 2013 ailment trace U.S. whistle-blower Edward Snowden ’s Apocalypse . Schrems advance come to that U.S. surveillance program such as the PRISM organisation delineate in Snowden ’s revealing were access information from European Facebook exploiter . In 2017 , the high up court of law of Ireland ruled that the U.S. government was Byzantine in “ deal indiscriminate information work on ” and give in business concern to the European Court of Justice . Facebook and then wedge an entreaty with Ireland ’s supreme court — where the external military headquarters of the mixer culture medium goliath is site — discount on Friday . “ Facebook has plausibly endow billion once again to arrest this subject , ” Schrems pronounce in a financial statement . “ It is right to image that the Supreme Court has not watch Facebook‘s contestation which have altogether refuse all the exist finding thusly Former Armed Forces . ” “ We are at once attend forth to the learn at the Court of Justice in Luxembourg . ” Facebook is already under the spotlight surveil its character in the data point scandal in Cambridge Analytica . trace Revelation from a whistleblower , 10 of zillion of exploiter were establish to give their personal data point highjack by Cambridge Analytica , a political party workings for Donald Trump in 2016 . Ireland ’s Data Protection Commission is also investigate the California - found strong on numerous possible misdemeanor of the tight European secrecy Pentateuch defined in the unexampled General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) .