Austria’s Max Schrems: US High-tech Giants’ Worst Nightmare?
July 16, 2020
Few in Silicon Valley could have predicted that a mild-mannered young Austrian lawyer who spent a semester studying there would one day become high-tech companies’ worst nightmare.
But on Thursday Max Schrems, 32, racked up the latest in a string of legal victories in the field of online privacy, with the EU’s top court striking down the crucial “Privacy Shield” online data arrangement between Europe and the US.