LONDON—EU regulators must make more effort to stop tech companies from transferring data to countries with weaker data-protection standards, an advisor to the European Union’s top court said Dec. 19. It’s the latest in a lengthy and complex legal case involving an Austrian privacy campaigner and Facebook.
A preliminary opinion by the European Court of Justice’s advocate general said existing EU legal rules for data transfers should remain in place, but there should be stricter enforcement by authorities. It gives a boost to privacy activist Max Schrems, who launched the case seven years ago because of worries Europeans was subject to mass U.S. government surveillance.
