EU-U.S. Privacy Shield is being challenged

As the website of the European Court of Justice just released, is the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield being challenged by Digital Rights Ireland, an Irish privacy advocacy group.

The facts of this case (Digital Rights Ireland v Commission; Case T-670/16) are as follows:

• Digital Rights Ireland has filed an action for annulment against the European Commission’s adequacy decision on the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.
• There has been no comment from Digital Rights Ireland yet.
• No documents have been published with regard to the case so far.
• However, as HuntonPrivacyBlog reported “(…) media sources quote a spokesperson for the European Commission acknowledging the case and stressing the European Commission’s conviction that the Privacy Shield meets all legal requirements.”