The reason is the Irish privacy regulator
Europeans risk being left without social networks Facebook and Instagram this summer after Ireland’s privacy regulator upheld its order to freeze the firm’s data flows to the United States, politico.eu has warned. Dariknews.bg.
Ireland’s data protection commission on Thursday informed its counterparts in Europe that it will block Meta, the owner of Facebook, from sending user data from Europe to the US. The Irish regulator’s draft decision follows years of bitter legal battles between the US tech giant and European privacy activists.
The European Court of Justice in 2020 invalidated an EU-US data flow pact called Privacy Shield over concerns about US surveillance practices. In his ruling, he also made it harder to use another legal tool that Meta and many other US businesses use to transfer personal data to the US, called Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC). This week’s decision in Ireland means Facebook is forced to stop relying on the SCC as well.
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Source: Dariknews.bg
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