A citizen legal challenge invalidated the US-EU Safe Harbor data transfer agreement

Evidence

It is already possible to see a new awakening to empowering collective action, at least in the privacy domain. One example is None of Your Business (NOYB), a nonprofit organization led by privacy activist Max Schrems. After many years of legal contest, Schrems made history in 2015 when his challenge to Facebook’s data-collection and data-retention practices—which he asserted were in violation of EU privacy law—led the Court of Justice of the European Union to invalidate the Safe Harbor agreement that governed data transfers between the US and the EU. In 2018 Schrems launched NOYB as a vehicle for “professional privacy enforcement.” — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1551

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how a single determined citizen activist unaided by institutions dismantled a lynchpin of transatlantic data flows — a procedural David-and-Goliath narrative.