Max Schrems yesterday took his class action case against Facebook to a Vienna court over personal data the social media giant held.
Schrems had taken a case against Facebook in Ireland, but abandoned that for the Austrian courts due to the ‘madness’ of the Irish system.
He claims Facebook’s terms of service and data collection run contrary to EU law.
Max Schrems spoke to Lunchtime today about the case, detailing the data that Facebook had held on to despite the fact that Max had deleted it.
He said that he was hoping to enforce the fundamental rights that we have in Europe, the right to privacy: "The problem we have is that we do have a fundamental right to privacy on a European level but we're not really enforcing that.
"In Ireland, there is almost no penalty if you break the law, there is an enforcement notice.
"What we really have to achieve in Europe is to enforce our fundamental rights because right now, the US is pretty much laughing at what we are doing."
You can listen to his interview here:
