Irish data-cops 'fooled' by Facebook, claims Austrian privacy group

"Astronomical" costs?

Really?

This sounds like the sort of case an advocacy group could get done pro-bono. (http://www.pila.ie/ for a referral service, courtesy of the Free Legal Aid Council) Even if not, Irish solicitors are desperate for work, Barristers' fees are capped, and they're also pretty short of jobs at the moment too. €300,000 on an appeal to a DPC ruling sounds excessive, (I'm no lawyer, but I live here, and I hear how much other cases have cost here by listening to the news)

However, I think the key words here are "student group". I suspect these guys haven't bothered to look up the actual costs of bringing an action in Ireland, or the most efficient way to do so, so they've decided that the only viable option is to decamp to Dublin for a few months while they push a pointless action all the way up to the Supreme Court, where it'll be thrown out, and they can go home with just enough martyrdom to ensure an interesting CV when they go on to a good law firm.

If they cared about the issue more than their own self-aggrandizement, they'd consider co-operating with a local advocacy group to achieve the same ends, but that doesn't make you look like a hero, I guess.

"Skint campaigners"?

If their crowd sourcing can raise between 100k and 300k then they won't be skint for long. It looks to me like a nice little earner.

"it can only do so if it can raise between €100,000 and €300,000"

Yikes. That seems a bit excessive - why do they need that kind of wazoonga?