In a move which is apparently an upshot of Facebook's alleged failure to make adjustments in accordance with the restrictions of European data protection law, a group of law students in Austria revealed on Tuesday that it intends challenging the social network's privacy policies in Irish court.

The Austrian law students' group - called `Europe vs. Facebook' - said that even though its members had made repeated requests as well as formal complaints to Facebook, the company had failed to adapt to the restrictions of European data protection law.

Lashing out against Facebook for its apparent lack of interest in ensuring that its services comply with the more stringent privacy requirements in Europe, the student-group effort's organizer Max Schrems - an Austrian law student at the University of Vienna - said that the group will start collecting donations to challenge Facebook's privacy policy in an Irish court, because Facebook's European business is incorporated in Ireland.

Revealing that the 10-member `Europe vs. Facebook' group had been pursuing the matter with Facebook for over one year now, 25-year-old Schrems said that the group had filed
22 complaints with the Irish Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in 2010; and added that the move to go to the court has been prompted by the fact that the company "has done only about 10 percent of what we had asked them to do."