The Europe vs Facebook group has said it will challenge Facebook’s privacy policy in Ireland, where the social network’s European offices are based.

Max Schrems, who has filed 22 complaints with the Irish regulator since 2010, said more than 40,000 Facebook users who had requested a copy of the data Facebook was holding on them had not received anything several months after making a request.

“The Irish obviously have no great political interest in going up against these companies because they’re so dependent on the jobs they create,” Mr Schrems told Reuters.

Mr Schrems is part of a ten-strong group of students at the University of Vienna who have successfully agitated for the removal of Facebook’s facial recognition software, but claim the social network needs to go much further to protect users’ data.

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