• Ireland vs. Facebook

    From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to ALL on Mon Jul 11 17:26:00 2022
    Europe faces Facebook blackout

    IrelandrCOs data authority informs its EU counterparts that it will block the platform from sending user data to the US.

    Europeans risk seeing social media services Facebook and Instagram shut down this summer, as Ireland's privacy regulator doubled down on its order to stop the firm's data flows to the United States.

    The Irish Data Protection Commission on Thursday informed its counterparts in Europe that it will block Facebook-owner Meta from sending user data from Europe to the U.S. The Irish regulator's draft decision cracks down on Meta's last legal resort to transfer large chunks of data to the U.S., after years
    of fierce court battles between the U.S. tech giant and European privacy activists.

    More at Politico: https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-faces-facebook-blackout-instagram-meta-d ata-protection/

    https://tinyurl.com/3xf4r93a

    My opinion: Europe will be much better off if this happens.


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