Facebook owner Meta Platforms was hit by a record €1.2 billion (R25.1 billion) European Union privacy fine and given a deadline to stop shipping users’ data to the US after regulators said it failed to protect personal information from the American security services.
to Amazon.com Inc., Meta was given five months to “suspend any future transfer of personal data to the US” and six months to stop “the unlawful processing, including storage, in the US” of transferred personal EU data.The ban on data transfers was widely expected and once prompted the US firm toStill, the likely impact has now been muted by the transition phase and the prospect of a new EU-US data flows agreement that could already be operational by the middle of this year.
from the Irish authority telling Facebook it could no longer move data to the US via this other method either.Meta said it would appeal the Irish decision, describing it as “flawed” and “unjustified.” EU regulators in December unveiled proposals to replace the previous “Privacy Shield” pact that had been torpedoed by the EU’s Court of Justice.
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