What you need to know
Facebook this week signaled its intent to move its British users to a user agreement based on US law after Brexit's completion.
The move is a clear attempt to avoid the EU's stringent privacy rules, which have already earned the company significant fines.
The company eventually plans to move all non-EU countries to the same user agreement and may even consider doing the same for EU users.
Facebook's struggles with privacy laws are well-documented, and the company is looking to circumvent the most stringent of these, namely EU's GDPR regulations, by moving its UK users to agreements with its US-based headquarters once Brexit is complete at the end of the year. UK users are currently covered by agreements with Facebook's international HQ, located in Ireland, and are thus protected by GDPR.