The European Court of Justice will this morning rule on a case referred to it by Ireland's High Court, with the outcome potentially having major implications for the way technology companies handle European citizens' data.
Standard Contractual Clauses are used by many firms to transfer data to countries that do not come under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation. They are supposed to ensure European data has the same protections abroad as it does inside the bloc. The case being ruled on by the ECJ today began as a 2015 complaint to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner, made by Austrian activist Max Schrems.
However, the ruling could impact any company that sends user data to the US - or potentially any other country outside of the EU.