Newsmaker: Max Schrems
From Vienna cafes to the European Union's highest court, an Austrian law student's two-year battle against Facebook and mass US surveillance culminated in a landmark ruling that has rippled across the business world.
Max Schrems, a 28-year-old Facebook user finishing his PhD in law at Vienna University, was born in Salzburg in 1987 and became interested in privacy issues at a young age.
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