Facebook requests a say in Austrian student's privacy case

By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Facebook Inc on Monday requested the chance to voice its opinion in a legal challenge mounted by an Austrian law student against the Irish privacy regulator for refusing to investigate the U.S. company's transfers of data to the United States. Major U.S. tech companies such as Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc as well as Facebook came under fire after revelations in 2013 of the U.S. government's Prism program, which allowed U.S. authorities to harvest private in