In an op-ed for Lawfare, Atlantic Council Europe Center senior fellow Kenneth Propp discussed “new procedural possibilities for class-action-style litigation” to challenge EU data transfers to the U.S. Propp indicated the Representative Actions Directive, which creates a common framework across the 27 EU member states for civil society organizations to “vindicate consumer interests,” could broaden the “potential scope of damages by allowing many individuals’ interests to be consolidated in a single action” for possible privacy damages, for instance.
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