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Court of Justice of the European Union · Judgment

C-311/18Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Limited and Maximillian Schrems

Decided
2020-07-16
ECLI
ECLI:EU:C:2020:559
CELEX
62018CJ0311
Finality
Final, the decision cannot be appealed

Also searched as: Case C-311/18, C-311/18 2020, ECLI:EU:C:2020:559.

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Reference for a preliminary ruling — Protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data — Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union — Articles 7, 8 and 47 — Regulation (EU) 2016/679 — Article 2(2) — Scope — Transfers of personal data to third countries for commercial purposes — Article 45 — Commission adequacy decision — Article 46 — Transfers subject to appropriate safeguards — Article 58 — Powers of the supervisory authorities — Processing of the data transferred by the public authorities of a third country for national security purposes — Assessment of the adequacy of the level of protection in the third country — Decision 2010/87/EU — Protective standard clauses on the transfer of personal data to third countries — Suitable safeguards provided by the data controller — Validity — Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1250 — Adequacy of the protection provided by the EU-US Privacy Shield — Validity — Complaint by a natural person whose data was transferred from the European Union to the United States.

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