TRIBUNJATENG.COM – Data Protection Commission in Ireland agreed to ban Facebook from sending user data from Europe ke AS.
This threatens Facebook and Instagram to stop their services on Europe around June-September.
New data privacy laws Ireland this has been sent to the data protection regulators at Europe to get approval.
If Facebook, Instagram and other US companies whose business involves sending data from Europe to the US, would like to keep operating in Europethey have to wait for a new agreement between the US-Europe about this data transfer.
US and Uni Representatives Europe (EU) itself met to discuss this issue in March, but still at the political level.
However, these negotiations reportedly stalled and it is said that they can only be realized by the end of this year.
Data Protection Commission (DPC) Representative Ireland confirm that the draft of the agreement has been sent to the regulators in the countries Europe others, who now have a month to provide input.
“Draft decision to be reviewed by the Data Protection Authority Europe This is related to the legal conflict between the EU and the US which is in the process of being resolved,” said a spokesperson for Meta, compiled by KompasTekno from Politico, Monday (11/7/2022).
“We welcome the new EU-US deal creating a new legal framework that will allow cross-border data transfers to continue, and we hope that this framework will allow us to keep families, communities and economies connected,” Meta continued.
Facebook itself can no longer rely on previous standard contractual clauses (SCC), because the courts Europe in 2020 then annulled the EU-US international agreement (pact) called “Privacy Shield”.
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