Facebook tells Irish court that probe threatens its EU operations - newspaper

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Facebook has told Ireland's High Court it cannot see how its services could operate in the European Union if regulators freeze its data transfer mechanism, the Sunday Business Post reported, citing court documents seen by the paper.

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The U.S. social media giant last week said that the Irish Data Protection Commission, its lead EU regulator, had made a preliminary decision that the mechanism it uses to transfer data from the EU to the United States “cannot in practice be used”. In an affidavit submitted to the court to request that the order be frozen, Yvonne Cunnane, Facebook Ireland’s head of data protection and associate general counsel, said it was not clear how the company could continue providing services in the EU if the Irish order is enforced, the Sunday Business Post reported.

The affidavit has not been made public, a High Court spokesman said, and a Facebook spokeswoman did not immediately respond to an emailed request for comment.

 

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Hahaha

It’s not like the GDPR and European data protection laws came as a surprise. Why did they build systems on such shaky ground? Also, are they really going to abandon the 2nd largest consumer market on the planet? Seems just a tad unlikely.

we would not miss facebook other apps could connect the world without robbing us of privacy & security

Good, commence the probe.

and? facebookismalware

No shit. Exploiters gonna exploit

Of course it does, because huge proportion of its operations are illegal.

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