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Court of Justice judgment · Case C-311/18

Data Protection Commissioner v Facebook Ireland Limited and Maximillian Schrems

Reviewed by Sergio Maldonado Elvira on 29 October 2026

Case
C-311/18
Court
Court of Justice
Date of judgment
16 July 2020
ECLI
ECLI:EU:C:2020:559
Instrument
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR)

Holding (summary, not the official text)

Transfers under standard contractual clauses require essentially equivalent protection, assessed case by case including access by foreign authorities; authorities must suspend or prohibit transfers that cannot be protected; the Commission's SCC decision stays valid; the EU-US Privacy Shield decision is invalid.

Checked against the official source on 28 October 2026.

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