Big victories and rollbacks for data in year of terror

Austrian student Max Schrems walked out of the courtroom in Luxembourg with a large smile on his face.

In his first appearance before Europe's top judges in late March, the privacy campaigner had scored another victory.

Judges backed his argument that a 15-year-old data sharing and transfer pact with the United States had been compromised. It was the first big crack in the so-called Safe Harbour agreement and a major blow to the social network giant Facebook.

A few months l...