I toni si alzano nella causa Facebook Irlanda: il governo US entra nel gioco senza troppa diplomazia. <http://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/us-government-asks-high-court-...> The US government has urged the High Court <http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_organisation=High%20Co...> to refuse the Data Protection Commissioner’s bid to have the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) decide issues with potentially enormous consequences for EU-US data transfers. Eileen Barrington SC, for the US, said the commissioner’s “unique”, “unusual” and “unprecedented” application for a reference to the CJEU was based on the commissioner’s “fatally flawed” draft finding concerning adequacy of remedies available in the US for breach of data privacy rights of EU citizens. This application was of “critical significance” to the US for legal and commercial reasons and should be dismissed for reasons including that it had been “entirely overtaken by events”, particularly the 2016 agreement between the European Commission <http://www.irishtimes.com/topics/european-commission> and US on the Privacy Shield framework for EU-US data transfers. Ms Barrington was also instructed it was “inconceivable” to suggest measures governing activities of the US intelligence community could just “disappear” or be “surreptitiously revoked” by orders or measures of the US executive. She was making submissions in the continuing action by commissioner Helen Dixon <http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_person=Helen%20Dixon&a...>, brought after she reached a draft finding in May 2016 that Austrian lawyer Max Schrems <http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_person=Max%20Schrems&a...> had “well-founded” objections concerning transfer of his personal data by Facebook <http://www.irishtimes.com/search/search-7.1213540?tag_company=Facebook&artic...> Ireland to its US parent, Facebook Inc. [...] ciao, Alberto