The High Court in Ireland has referred a data-sharing case to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) The referral follows a High Court Challenge by Austrian law student Max Schrems who fronts a privacy group called Europe v Facebook The group claims that the manner in which Facebook processes its users information lacks transparency and user control which, it says, makes it illegal under EU law Facebook has a subsidiary in Dublin, which is subject to European privacy and consumer law, which is generally tougher than US laws.”]